Citation

Tishler CL, McKenry PC. J. Fam. Pract. 1983; 16(4): 731-734.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Dowden Health Media)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6833961

Abstract

The research literature on adolescent suicide is unclear as to whether psychopathology underlies the suicide attempt. A group of 46 adolescent suicide attempters were compared with a group of 46 adolescent nonattempters to determine whether suicidal adolescents differed from this comparison group in characteristics of psychopathology. The findings indicated that the attempters exceeded nonattempters on 8 of 11 measures of psychopathology. Such findings suggest that adolescent suicide attempters emit clear signs of psychological distress that can be detected by physicians treating this population.

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