Year: 1973 Source: Report of a Working Group by WHO Regional Office for Europe,(1973: Zagreb, Yugoslavia), p.73-111 SIEC No: 19831189

This paper covers a meeting of a WHO Working Group on the problem of suicidal behaviors in young people. Topics covered include: national suicide statistics, ascertainment of suicide, relationship between suicide & other self-destructive behaviors, high risk factors, detection of high risk groups, intervention & postvention & the importance for suicide research of young people’s attitudes toward death.(TC)