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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 49, Issue 12, Pages 1055-1061Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(01)01141-6
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childhood and adolescent suicide; diagnosis; risk factors
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This article highlights strategies for diagnosing risk for childhood and adolescent suicidal behavior. Empirical studies identifying risk factors for childhood and adolescent suicidal behavior guided recommendations for suicide risk assessment, Diagnostic assessment involves identification of multiple factors including demographic characteristics, suicidal behavior, psychopathology, interpersonal problems, family discord, family psychopathology, accessibility of lethal suicide methods, exposure to suicide, and protective factors. Interview methods and self-report questionnaires are reliable and valid in identifying suicidal risk but are limited by low base rates of suicide. Identification of risk factors as foci for intervention is important for suicide prevention. (C) 2001 Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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