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Youth Sucide [electronic resource] : Issues, Assessment, and Intervention
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cimbolic, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology.
- Suicide--Prevention.
- Teenagers--Suicidal behavior.
- Social Problems.
- Age Groups.
- Self-Injurious Behavior.
- Behavioral Symptoms.
- Persons.
- Sociology.
- Names.
- Social Sciences.
- Behavior.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychiatry.
- Adolescent.
- Suicide.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Problems.
- Age Groups.
- Self-Injurious Behavior.
- Behavioral Symptoms.
- Persons.
- Sociology.
- Names.
- Social Sciences.
- Behavior.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychiatry.
- Adolescent.
- Suicide.
- Local Subjects:
- Psychology.
- Suicide--Prevention.
- Teenagers--Suicidal behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book discusses the dramatic increase in youth suicide and looks at why it is now one of the leading causes of death in young people. Presented in a balanced, factual manner, using both empirical and clinical data, the authors give specific suggestions that they have found useful as experienced clinicians. The book begins with a discussion and exploration of the problem from an epidemiological, demographic, and socio-cultural perspective. There is a discussion of assessment concerning ""objective"" paper and pencil self-report instruments and an examination of their validity; and reliabili
- Contents:
- HALF TITLE: YOUTH SUICIDE; TITLE PAGE: YOUTH SUICIDE; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; YOUTH SUICIDE; Chapter 1: YOUTH SUICIDE: THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM; Chapter 2: SUICIDE RISK AND ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS; Chapter 3: THE YOUTH SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT INTERVIEW; Chapter 4: TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL YOUTH; Chapter 5: SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH THE LEGACY OF SELF-INFLICTED DEATH; Chapter 6: PREVENTING YOUTH SUICIDE: WHAT WORKS? PROGRAM AND POLICY CHOICES FOR SCHOOLS; Chapter 7: THE WERTHER EFFECT AND YOUTH SUICIDE CLUSTERS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08910-8
- OCLC:
- 841916780
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