Suicide In Children And Adolescents

Description:
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.

Review:
'This book moves beyond the traditional approach of viewing suicide as a diagnostic feature of depression, personality disorder or other diagnostic category ... There are several clinically orientated chapters, which I would recommend anyone assessing potentially suicidal children to read ... each chapter provides an authoritative account of the current literature, which is generally well appraised and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has any contact with suicidal youth ...'. Psychological Medicine 'The authors have a wonderful way of making sense out of the complex interplay of biopsychosocial and psychodynamic forces that lead youth to end their lives. The topics of suicide evaluation and prevention are immensely helpful and very thorough ...'. Doody's 'Knowledge is expanding rapidly in child and adolescent psychiatry and in suicidology alike. This new book summarizes and discusses the latest development in the field.' European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Table of Contents:
1. The epidemiology of youth suicide Madelyn S. Gould, David Shaffer and Ted Greenberg; 2. Suicide and the 'continuum of adolescent self destructiveness': is there a connection? Robert A. King, Vladislav V. Ruchkin and Mary E. Schwab-Stone; 3. Adolescent attempted suicide Alan Apter and Danuta Wasserman; 4. Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior David A. Brent and J. John Mann; 5. Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents Alan Apter; 6. Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide Robert A. King; 7. Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide M. J. Kelleher (deceased) and D. Chambers; 8. An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young Alan L. Berman; 9. Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents Cynthia R. Pfeffer; 10. Suicide prevention for adolescents Israel Orbach; 11. Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence Richard Harrington and Younus Saleem; 12. Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters Julie Boergers and Anthony Spirito; 13. Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death: implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions Cornelia L. Gallo and Cynthia R. Pfeffer; Index.

Author Biography:
Born 29 Jan 1943. Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University. Born 15 Jan 1946 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Sackler School of Medicine in the University of Tel-Aviv Medical School.