Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour Among Adolescents (IN: Psychosocial Disorders in Young People: Time Trends and Their Causes, edited by M Rutter & D J Smith)

This chapter describes the following: the difficult problems of definition & measurement in suicide research; the evidence on time trends; comparing statistics in European countries with non-European countries; the evidence on the causal pathways leading to suicide in individual cases; the effectiveness of various prevention strategies; possible causal explanations for time trends in rates of suicide; & the main conclusions from these issues. (203 refs.) (LS)