Completed Suicide in Children and Adolescents
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 November 1988
Harry M. Hoberman, Barry D. Garfinkel
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Children and adolescents who committed suicide were most likely to be older males with a current psychiatric disorder, usually an affective disorder or alcohol or drug abuse, and appeared to be impulsive and triggered by age-normative precipitants.
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Descriptive information on a large number of children and adolescents who had committed suicide was collected from medical examiners' records. A review of deaths of persons 19 and under from nonnatural causes identified 229 youth suicides. Characteristics of these youth were extracted from medical examiners' reports: no control groups were employed. Children and adolescents who committed suicide were most likely to be older males with a current psychiatric disorder, usually an affective disorder or alcohol or drug abuse. Suicides appeared to be impulsive and triggered by age-normative precipitants. Sex, age, and cohort differences are presented. Results are evaluated in light of previous research.
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