Citation

Rubenstein JL, Halton A, Kasten L, Rubin C, Stechler G. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1998; 68(2): 274-284.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Mass., USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9589765

Abstract

Recent suicidal behavior was reported on a questionnaire by 14% of 272 high school students. Two-thirds of the suicidal teenagers neither received help nor disclosed their self-harm to anyone. Depression and stress--especially family suicidality, feelings of violation, and sexuality--increased the risk, as did parental separation, divorce, and most dramatically, remarriage. Family cohesiveness helped alleviate the risk in the nonintact families.

Language: en