Child and Adolescent Suicide: From the Nomothetic to the Idiographic (IN: Life Span Perspectives of Suicide: Time-Lines in the Suicide Process, ed. by A A Leenaars)

This article begins with a case study of a 12-year-old black girl who committed suicide. Her case illustrates the author’s belief that research on youth suicide does not help the caregiver, & is sometimes misleading. None of the current research would point to the young black girl as a high risk for suicide. The author asserts this makes prevention very difficult, & that youthful lives must be attended to individually to lessen suicides, & research must continue to be refined. (VM)