SUICIDAL-BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS - STRESS AND PROTECTION IN DIFFERENTFAMILY CONTEXTS

Authors
RUBENSTEIN JL HALTON A KASTEN L RUBIN C STECHLER G
Citation
Jl. Rubenstein et al., SUICIDAL-BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS - STRESS AND PROTECTION IN DIFFERENTFAMILY CONTEXTS, American journal of orthopsychiatry, 68(2), 1998, pp. 274-284
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
American journal of orthopsychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029432
Volume
68
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
274 - 284
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9432(1998)68:2<274:SIA-SA>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Recent suicidal behavior teas reported on a questionnaire by 14% of 27 2 high school students, Two-thirds of the suicidal teenagers neither r eceived kelp nor disclosed their self-harm to anyone. Depression and s tress-especially family suicidality, feelings of violation, and sexual ity-increased the risk, as did parental separation, divorce, and most dramatically, remarriage. Family cohesiveness helped alleviate the ris k kt the nonintact families.