Understanding Adolescent Suicide: an Interview with Alan Berman, PhD

This article presents an interview with Alan Berman, past president of the American Association of Suicidology, & a psychology professor at American University. He discusses how to judge if an adolescent is at risk for suicide, the role of religion, reasons for the increase in adolescent suicide, how a counsellor should respond to a suicidal patient, & why parents miss clues that their child is suicidal. (VM)