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The epidemiology of youth suicide / Madelyn S. Gould, David Shaffer, and Ted Greenberg -- Suicide and the "continuum of adolescent self-destructiveness" : is there a connection? / Robert A. King, Vladislav V. Ruchkin, and Mary E. Schwab-Stone -- Adolescent attempted suicide / Alan Apter and Danuta Wasserman -- Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior / David A. Brent and J. John Mann -- Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents / Alan Apter -- Psychodynamics approaches to youth suicide / Robert A. King -- Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide / Michael J. Kelleher and Derek Chambers -- An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young / Alan L. Berman -- Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents / Cynthia R. Pfeffer -- Suicide prevention for adolescents / Israel Orbach -- Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence / Richard Harrington and Younus Saleem -- Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters / Julie Boergers and Anthony Spirito -- Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death : implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions / Cornelia L. Gallo and Cynthia R. Pfeffer.

In an epoch when rates of death and illness among the young have steadily decreased in the face of medical progress, the persistently high rates of youth suicide and suicide attempts around the world remain a tragic irony and a challenge to both our clinical practice and theoretical understanding. How can these deaths be prevented? Can they be anticipated? Are there perceptible patterns of risk and vulnerability? What role do families, gender, culture, and biology play? What are the treatments for and outcomes of suicide attempters? To address these questions, experts from around the world in all areas of psychiatry, from epidemiology, neurobiology, genetics and psychotherapy, have brought together their current findings in Suicide in Children and Adolescents.