Helping Lethal Suicidal Adolescents (IN: Beyond the Innocence of Childhood vol.2: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope With… ed. D W Adams & E J Deveau)

This chapter discusses various misconceptions & difficulties involved in helping lethal suicidal adolescents, including: lack of understanding about suicide itself, oversimplification of the problem of adolescent suicide, high demand for long-term treatment services, lack of knowledge about predictive behaviors, implementation of prevention, intervention & postvention measures, & problems resulting from transference & countertransference. The authors emphasize that there is no one simplistic universal response. (47 refs)