Suicidal Adolescents and Children
- 29 June 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 188 (13) , 1103-1107
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1964.03060390005001
Abstract
Suicidal adolescents and children represent 0.5% to 3% of all suicides. A study of 31 adolescents and children seen at the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center or in private psychiatric practice revealed a peculiar type of self-destructive tendency in 15 patients. In these 15, chiefly adolescents, the suicide attempt was the ultimate in a series of various self-destructive acts. Arousing parental concern and thereby reducing anxiety and feelings of helplessness resulted in a paradoxical situation in which a natural biological drive for survival has become perversely involved with a drive toward self-destruction.Keywords
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- SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL ATTEMPTS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1962