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ISBN 10: 0521622263 

ISBN 13: 9780521622264

Author: Robert A. King, Alan Apter

In an epoch when rates of death and illness among the young have steadily decreased in the face of medical progress, the persistently high rates of youth suicide and suicide attempts around the world remain a tragic irony and a challenge to both our clinical practice and theoretical understanding. How can these deaths be prevented? Can they be anticipated? Are there perceptible patterns of risk and vulnerability? What role do families, gender, culture, and biology play? What are the treatments for and outcomes of suicide attempters? To address these questions, experts from around the world in all areas of psychiatry, from epidemiology, neurobiology, genetics and psychotherapy, have brought together their current findings in Suicide in Children and Adolescents.

Table of contents:

1 The epidemiology of youth suicide
Introduction
Suicide rates and patterns
Analysis of research
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
REFERENCES

2 Suicide and the ‘continuum of adolescent self-destructiveness’: is there a connection?
Introduction
Overview of chapter
Studies supporting the notion of a ‘continuum of self-destructiveness’
Psychiatric diagnoses common to suicidality and problem behaviors
Caveat regarding the heterogeneity of adolescent suicidal behavior
Cumulative and generalizing adverse impact on adolescent development
Shared antecedents and risk factors for problem behaviors and adolescent suicidality
Conclusions
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3 Adolescent attempted suicide
Introduction
Epidemiology
Reasons for suicide attempts
Methods of attempting suicide
The prognostic implications of parasuicide and the relationship between attempted suicide and suicide
Psychopathological characteristics of adolescent suicide attempters
Patterns of care after a suicide attempt
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4 Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior
Overview
Adoption studies
Twin studies
Family studies
Candidate gene studies
Family-environmental studies
Exposure to suicide and suicidal behavior
Model for the familial transmission of suicidal behavior
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
REFERENCES

5 Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents
Serotonin and suicide
The serotonin (5-HT) system and aggression
The serotonin system as a biological link between suicidality and aggression
Serotonin and the developmental psychopathology of suicidal behavior
Catecholamines and suicidal behavior
Cholesterol in suicidal and aggressive behavior
Gamma-aminobutyric acid/benzodiazepine system in aggressive and suicidal behavior
The catecholamine systems
Hormones
Hormones and suicide
Carbohydrate (CHO) metabolism
The electroencephalogram
Conclusion
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6 Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide
Introduction
Escape from unbearable affects
The role of loss and interpersonal vulnerability
The role of attachment
Adolescent suicide and the development of self-care
Adolescence as a developmental period of risk for suicide
Conclusion
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7 Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide
Introduction
Comparative analysis of national youth suicide rates
Youth suicide trends in one culture: the case of the Republic of Ireland
Conclusion
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8 An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young
Case studies provide explanatory hypotheses
Case studies teach
Case studies illuminate
Case studies provide meaning and longitudinal perspective
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9 Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
The concept of suicidal behavior
Interviewing about suicidal behavior
Impact of other factors on identifying suicidal behavior
Other procedures of identifying suicidal behavior
Suicide rating scales
The relevance of risk factors
Summary
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10 Suicide prevention for adolescents
The experience of the suicidal person – theories of suicide
What makes suicide prevention possible?
Strategies of suicide prevention
Suicide prevention tactics
The integrative approach to suicide prevention
Conclusion
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11 Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence
Circumstances of suicidal attempts
Rationale for the use of cognitive behavioral therapy in suicidal adolescents
General assessment
Cognitive behavioral techniques
Organizing treatment
Efficacy
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
REFERENCES

12 Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters
Introduction
Psychosocial functioning at follow-up
Repeat suicide attempts
Completed suicide
Treatment compliance
Summary and conclusions
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13 Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death: implications for psychosocial outcomes and
Epidemiology of suicide in U.S.
Characteristics of children and adolescents who have lost family members to suicide
Children and adolescents bereaved by parental death
Adult bereavement after suicidal deaths
A diagnostic dilemma: distinguishing between symptoms of bereavement and major depressive disorder
Another diagnostic dilemma: distinguishing between symptoms of bereavement and PTSD
Studies of bereavement interventions
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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