Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The authors are master clinicians who take the reader step by step through understa
Adolescent Suicidal Behavior
β Scribed by David K. Curran
- Publisher
- CRC Press LLC
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 223
- Series
- Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement Ser.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
First published in 1987. This comprehensive book addresses the problem of adolescent suicidal behavior in America today. It devotes a great deal of attention to sublethal acts or suicide attempts, rather than committed suicides. This study establishes a progression that discusses the scope and magnitude of the problem and an exploration of the meaning and reasons for adolescent suicide in the individual case.
β¦ Subjects
Youth -- Suicidal behavior -- United States.
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