Suicide in Adolescence

✍ Scribed by Dr. René F. W. Diekstra, Dr. Keith Hawton (auth.), Dr. René F. W. Diekstra, Dr. Keith Hawton (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The official death rates from suicide vary considerably between countries in the world for which data are available. They range from 3 to 45 persons a year, per 100,000 of population. Historically, the higher rates of suicide are in the older age groups and in males. However, the general trend in the last twenty years has been for suicide increasing in the younger age groups (15-34) and in femah;s. It has been suggested that thi~ development is related to the phenomenon of attempted suicide, of which the rates in most industrialized countries have doubled and in some countries even tripled over the past two decades. The average rate of attempted suicide is now estimated to be around 200 per 100,000 for males and 350 for females. Almost two-thirds of these occur before the age of thirty. Although the majority of attempted suicide are not intended to be lethal, once a suicide attempt has been made, there is more likelihood of subsequent death by suicide. As many as ten percent of people who have made a previous unsuccessful attempt commit suicide at a later stage in their lives. rersons with increased likelihood to commit suicide are youngsters from disrupted families and from families with a history of suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, those who have failed at school, the unemployed and those suffering from depression.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: an overview....Pages 7-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-26
Renée: Chronicle of a misspent life....Pages 27-41
Renée or the complex psychodynamics of adolescent suicide....Pages 43-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-78
Assessment and aftercare of adolescents who take overdoses....Pages 79-93
Family therapy and psychotherapy following suicidal behaviour by young adolescents....Pages 95-111
Assessment of suicidal behaviour in young children: case demonstrations....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-126
Families of suicidal children....Pages 127-137
The role of the family in suicide....Pages 139-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-154
School and suicide: education for life and death....Pages 155-172
“ASAP” — an adolescent suicide awareness programme....Pages 173-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-196

✦ Subjects

Public Health/Gesundheitswesen