The relationship between adolescent suicidal behavior and life events in childhood and adolescence
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 January 1992
Erik Wilde, Ineke Kienhorst, René F. W. Diekstra, W. H. G. Wolters
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For suicidal adolescents, the suicide attempt seems embedded not just in the problems every adolescent has to deal with but in greater turmoil in their families, rooted in childhood and not stabilizing during adolescence, in combination with traumatic events during adolescence and social instability in the year preceding the attempt.
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For suicidal adolescents, the suicide attempt seems embedded not just in the problems every adolescent has to deal with but in greater turmoil in their families, rooted in childhood and not stabilizing during adolescence, in combination with traumatic events during adolescence and social instability in the year preceding the attempt.
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