Child and Adolescent Survivors of Suicide
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Hogrefe Publishing Group in Crisis
- Vol. 24 (1) , 4-6
- https://doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.4
Abstract
Summary: Suicide in a family is distressing for each and every member. Children and adolescents bereaved by suicide are known to be more at risk of suffering from a variety of psychiatric problems, especially affective disorders. A group of children and adolescents who experienced a suicidal death in the family were assessed for psychiatric problems as well as for social adjustment. The findings suggest that the bereaved children and adolescents are at elevated risk for major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and impaired social adjustment.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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