Suicide in Children: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment (IN: Suicide: Understanding and Responding: Harvard Medical School Perspectives, ed. by D Jacobs and H N Brown)

Year: 1989 Source: Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1989. p.201-220 SIEC No: 19900482

Presents a discussion of suicide in children including epidemiology, antecedents & precipitants, assessment & diagnosis, the mental status exam, treatment & disposition, & individual psychotherapy. The case of a suicidal 6-year-old girl is used to illustrate the phases of the psychotherapeutic process. 52 refs. (LH)

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Suicide in Children: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment (IN: Suicide: Understanding and Responding: Harvard Medical School Perspectives, ed. by D Jacobs and H N Brown)

Dugan T F~~Belfer M L