Abstract:Suicide in children and adolescents is a major public health problem and accounts for at least 100,000 annual deaths in young people worldwide (World Health Organization, 2002). In the United States suicide accounts for more adolescent deaths than all natural causes combined, with approximately 4,000 young people ages 15 to 24 dying by suicide in 2002 (Kochanek, Murphy, Anderson, & Scott, 2004). The American Association of Suicidology (2003) estimated that in the United States a teenager kills him-or herself … Show more
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