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Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide. Adolescent Suicide serves to correct erroneous conceptions--held by the public and professionals--about the nature of suicidal behavior among the young, thereby promoting the opportunity for more prompt and effective evaluation and management of potentially fatal incidents. In this landmark volume, authorities address the problem of suicide among adolescents, which has emerged in recent years as a significant public health problem. In-depth discussions of the epidemiology and behavioral characteristics of youth who attempt and complete suicide, risk factors, methods of death, circumstances of the suicidal act, and reasons for the dramatic increase in the phenomenon provide social workers, educators, psychologists, and psychiatrists with systematic information that can be used in both prevention and intervention efforts. There is also a wealth of valuable material here on school-based suicide prevention programs, strategies for managing and counseling the relatives, peers, and classmates of individuals who have committed suicide, and coping with suicide in residential treatment centers.
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Adolescent Suicide: Recognition, Treatment . and Prevention
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Adolescent Suicide: Recognition, Treatment and Prevention Edited by Barry Garfinkel, MD Gorden Northrup, MD
~l Routledge ~~
Taylor & Francis Group
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Adolescent Suicide: Recognition, Treatment and Prevention has also been published as Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, Volume 7, Number 11989.
First published 1989 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OXI4 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY \00\7, USA
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1989 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adolescent suicide: recognition, treatment, and prevention / Gordon Northrup, Barry Garfinkel, editors. p. cm. "Has also been published as Residenti~1 treatment for children and youth, volume 7, number 1, 1989" - T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-866-56949-1 (hbk) 1. Suicide - Psychological aspects. 2. Teenagers - Suicidal behavior. 3. Adolescent psychotherapy. I. Northrup, Gordon. II. Garfinkel, Barry D. RJ506.S9A36 1989 89-19773 362.2'8'0835 -dc20 CIP
Adolescent Suicide: Recognition, Treatment and Prevention CONTENTS
Youth Suicide Risk Assessment: Process and Model Wander de C. Braga, MD Residential Management of Suicidal Adolescents Andrew Edmund Slaby, PhD, MD, MPH Patricia L. McGuire, MD Adolescent Suicide in a Residential Treatment Center: A Clinical and Administrative Post-Mortem Danilo E. Ponce, MD Jeff P. Smith, MA
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Completed Suicide in Children and Adolescents: A Review Harry M. Hobennan, PhD
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The Fairfax County Suicide Prevention Program: A Public School System Responds Myra Herbert, MSW
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The Components of School-Based Suicide Prevention Barry D. Garfinkel, MD, FRCP(C)
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ABOUT THE EDITORS Barry Garfinkel, MD, is Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education in child psychiatry at Brown Unive