Year: 1974 Source: London: Tavistock Publications, 1974. 310p. SIEC No: 19831000

Part 1 of this book outlines the notion of suicide and gives statistical information on the rates of suicide among adolescents. Part 2 deals with the attitudes of the adult and society to adolescent suicide. In the third part the causes of adolescent suicide are examined and lastly various hypotheses are put forward on the nature of adolescent suicide. (KB)