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Suicide over the Life Span

Suicide over the Life Span

ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTHS Brian L. Mishara

CHILDREN Brian L. Mishara

THE ELDERLY Diego De Leo

ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTHS

Suicides of the young, those who have most of life's highlights to experience, are profoundly challenging to cultural systems. Considerable soul searching was triggered in the United States when, between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s, the suicide rates of its ten- to fourteen-year-olds nearly tripled while doubling among those aged fifteen to nineteen. Although the suicide rates for adolescents in the United States and Canada are lower than for other age groups because adolescents die infrequently from physical illnesses, by the ...

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