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Adolescent Suicide

Adolescent Suicide

Paperback

Child PsychologyDeath & DyingGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0875806163
ISBN13: 9780875806167
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Jan 7 2008
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.56 Width: 11.32 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

Suicide and suicide attempts among adolescents are significant public health problems. Consequently, identifying at-risk youth in time to provide intervention not only helps to prevent suicides and suicide-related injuries but improves young persons' overall quality of life and increases the chances for healthy and productive lives. Believing that adolescent suicide can be prevented, Gutierrez and Osman have developed a set of tools for assessing suicide risk, designed especially for adolescents. In contrast to the most common assessments that focus solely on risk factors, these tools measure both risk and protective factors in order to predict more accurately the probability of suicide and suicide-related behaviors. This guide is designed to enable nonspecialists as well as professional clinicians, researchers, school psychologists, and other school-based professionals to select appropriate assessment tools and to evaluate the results.

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