First published in 1987. This comprehensive book addresses the problem of adolescent suicidal behavior in America today. It devotes a great deal of attention to sublethal acts or suicide attempts, rather than committed suicides. This study establishes a progression that discusses the scope and magnitude of the problem and an exploration of the meaning and reasons for adolescent suicide in the individual case.
Chapter 1 Perspectives;
Chapter 2 Scope of the Problem in the United
States;
Chapter 3 Meaning and Reasons: The Balance of Life and Death;
Chapter
4 Antecedents of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior;
Chapter 5 Postattempt: Human
Environment and the Teenage Suicide Attempter;
Chapter 6 The Wish and the
Reality: Effect of Negative Attitudes on the Adolescent Suicide Attempter;
Chapter 7 Familiarity, Modeling, and Imitation: Suicide in the Experience of
the Adolescent;
Chapter 8 Assessment;
Chapter 9 Treatment;
Chapter 10
Education and Prevention;
David K. Curran Public schools, Shrewsbury; Anna Maria College, Paxton; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester; Private practice, Worcester; Massachusetts
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