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Preparatory and Prior Suicidal Behavior Factors (IN: Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide. Volume 2: Risk Factors for Youth Suicide)
Farberow N L
A selective & arbitrary review of literature pertaining to behavioral factors that are signs of suicide. Behavioral factors are those acts & actions engaged in by a person that indicate the potential for a self-destructive act to occur in the future. The paper focuses on studies whose subjects are aged 20, or less, & involved in completed or attempted suicide. The studies are grouped on the basis of the presence or absence of control or comparison groups. (CM)