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Adolescence and depression
May 1987
tempted and completed suicides. The final section presents the case data and profiles for several age groups of each sex. The descriptive chapters are well-organized with succinct information in short paragraphs and helpful summaries. An annotated bibliography enhances the book. (This editor has found this text quite valuable in preparing lectures on youth suicide both for professional and general public audiences.) Joan P. Preventing Teenage Suicide. The Living Alternative Handbook. New York, Human Sciences Press, 1986. 147 pp. $16.95. ISBN O-89885-247-1. Ms. Joan developed this model for a curriculum to help adolescents cope with depression and suicidal feelings based on her many years experience with an adolescent suicideprevention outreach program. She provides goals, information content, and suggested films, guest speakers, and classroom activities for each of several days for programs directed at either senior high or junior high school students. The book includes forms for program evaluation, sample tests, and examples of crisis wallet cards with emergency numbers and instructions. There are guidelines to assist school personnel in talking with depressed or suicidal students. The ideas could be used by individual counselors and prevention specialists as well as classroom educators.
Maris, R. (editor). Biology of Suicide. Suicide Life Threat Behav 1986 Summer; 16(2):83311. (Guilford Press, 200 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003.) This issue includes many papers on the biological correlates of suicide, reviewing current research in genetics, neurochemistry, and neuroendocrinology.
National Institute of Mental Health. Adolescence and Depression. DHHS (ADM) 84- 1337. 1984. (5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.) This information packet contains several sheets citing and summarizing major research on depression, adolescent development, identity formation, and depression and suicide in youth. Each sheet could be reproduced or used as a model for teaching handouts.
Peck, M. L., Farberow, PI. L., Litman, R. E. (editors). Youfh Suicide. New York, Springer ~~~l~s~~n8Co., 9985. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN O-8261-4480-2. The collected papers from a 1980 conference sponsored by the Los Angeles Institute for Studies of Destructive Behaviors and the Suicide Prevention Center represent an interesting adjunct to more comprehensive textbooks about suicide. Papers include an overview ofyouth suicide
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and detailed reviews of psychodynamic and demographic factors. There are research studies of the ego functioning of suicidal latency-age children and of 12 older adolescents who completed suicide compared with age-matched living peers who were their close friends. Additional papers discuss adolescents and the family system, destructive aspects of cults, crisis intervention, treatment concerns related to prevention, educational approaches to prevention, and the role of schools.
Pfeffer, C. R. The Suicidal Child. New York, Guilford Press, 1986. 318 pp. $29.95. IS&N 0-89862-664-l. Although devoted to suicidal behavior in children ages 6 to 12 years, this excellent text should interest anyone working with self-destructive adolescents. From extensive clinical experience and literature review, Dr. Pfeffer, a child psychiatrist recognized for her work with youth suicide, presents a historical overview and thoroughly discusses the classification, epidemiology, risk factors, clinical evaluation, and treatment of suicide in latency-age children. Many case vignettes enhance the text and document the extent of this problem.
Rosenfeld, L. Prupas, M. Left Alive. After R Suicide Death irz the Family. Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, 1984. 100 pp. $18.75. ISBN 0-398-04953-X. This unique and important book was written by two counselors from Canada with many years experience leading workshops for those who have lost a relative or friend to suicide. They examine the unresolved grief, anger, and self-blame experienced by survivors of suicide both by adults and by youth, especially the impact on spouses, children, and siblings. Case examples in journalistic style, interview excerpts, and poems by some of the survivors illustrate the intense need for support and often professional attention for these living victims.
Roy, A. (editor). Self-destructive Behavior. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1985 Jun; 8(2):181-403. (Single issue may be ordered from W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia.) The papen in this issue review suicide attempts, the spectrum of self-destructive behavior in children and adolescents, factitious illness, animal models of suicide, pathologic gambling, self-harmful sexual behavior, ancl psychotherapy for self-destructive behavior. Additional papers discuss suicide in special populations, including substance abusers, psychiatric patients, and physicians.
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of Tompkins County, Inc. Living Through It With Help From a Friend.
tempted and completed suicides. The final section presents the case data and profiles for several age groups of each sex. The descriptive chapters are well-organized with succinct information in short paragraphs and helpful summaries. An annotated bibliography enhances the book. (This editor has found this text quite valuable in preparing lectures on youth suicide both for professional and general public audiences.) Joan P. Preventing Teenage Suicide. The Living Alternative Handbook. New York, Human Sciences Press, 1986. 147 pp. $16.95. ISBN O-89885-247-1. Ms. Joan developed this model for a curriculum to help adolescents cope with depression and suicidal feelings based on her many years experience with an adolescent suicideprevention outreach program. She provides goals, information content, and suggested films, guest speakers, and classroom activities for each of several days for programs directed at either senior high or junior high school students. The book includes forms for program evaluation, sample tests, and examples of crisis wallet cards with emergency numbers and instructions. There are guidelines to assist school personnel in talking with depressed or suicidal students. The ideas could be used by individual counselors and prevention specialists as well as classroom educators.
Maris, R. (editor). Biology of Suicide. Suicide Life Threat Behav 1986 Summer; 16(2):83311. (Guilford Press, 200 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003.) This issue includes many papers on the biological correlates of suicide, reviewing current research in genetics, neurochemistry, and neuroendocrinology.
National Institute of Mental Health. Adolescence and Depression. DHHS (ADM) 84- 1337. 1984. (5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.) This information packet contains several sheets citing and summarizing major research on depression, adolescent development, identity formation, and depression and suicide in youth. Each sheet could be reproduced or used as a model for teaching handouts.
Peck, M. L., Farberow, PI. L., Litman, R. E. (editors). Youfh Suicide. New York, Springer ~~~l~s~~n8Co., 9985. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN O-8261-4480-2. The collected papers from a 1980 conference sponsored by the Los Angeles Institute for Studies of Destructive Behaviors and the Suicide Prevention Center represent an interesting adjunct to more comprehensive textbooks about suicide. Papers include an overview ofyouth suicide
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and detailed reviews of psychodynamic and demographic factors. There are research studies of the ego functioning of suicidal latency-age children and of 12 older adolescents who completed suicide compared with age-matched living peers who were their close friends. Additional papers discuss adolescents and the family system, destructive aspects of cults, crisis intervention, treatment concerns related to prevention, educational approaches to prevention, and the role of schools.
Pfeffer, C. R. The Suicidal Child. New York, Guilford Press, 1986. 318 pp. $29.95. IS&N 0-89862-664-l. Although devoted to suicidal behavior in children ages 6 to 12 years, this excellent text should interest anyone working with self-destructive adolescents. From extensive clinical experience and literature review, Dr. Pfeffer, a child psychiatrist recognized for her work with youth suicide, presents a historical overview and thoroughly discusses the classification, epidemiology, risk factors, clinical evaluation, and treatment of suicide in latency-age children. Many case vignettes enhance the text and document the extent of this problem.
Rosenfeld, L. Prupas, M. Left Alive. After R Suicide Death irz the Family. Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, 1984. 100 pp. $18.75. ISBN 0-398-04953-X. This unique and important book was written by two counselors from Canada with many years experience leading workshops for those who have lost a relative or friend to suicide. They examine the unresolved grief, anger, and self-blame experienced by survivors of suicide both by adults and by youth, especially the impact on spouses, children, and siblings. Case examples in journalistic style, interview excerpts, and poems by some of the survivors illustrate the intense need for support and often professional attention for these living victims.
Roy, A. (editor). Self-destructive Behavior. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1985 Jun; 8(2):181-403. (Single issue may be ordered from W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia.) The papen in this issue review suicide attempts, the spectrum of self-destructive behavior in children and adolescents, factitious illness, animal models of suicide, pathologic gambling, self-harmful sexual behavior, ancl psychotherapy for self-destructive behavior. Additional papers discuss suicide in special populations, including substance abusers, psychiatric patients, and physicians.
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of Tompkins County, Inc. Living Through It With Help From a Friend.