Completed suicide in children and adolescents.

@article{Hoberman1988CompletedSI,
  title={Completed suicide in children and adolescents.},
  author={Harry M. Hoberman and Barry D. Garfinkel},
  journal={Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry},
  year={1988},
  volume={27 6},
  pages={
          689-95
        }
}
  • H. M. Hoberman, B. Garfinkel
  • Published 1 November 1988
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Abstract Descriptive information on a large number of children and adolescents who had committed suicide was collected from medical examiners' records. A review of deaths of persons 19 and under from nonnatural causes identified 229 youth suicides. Characteristics of these youth were extracted from medical examiners' reports: no control groups were employed. Children and adolescents who committed suicide were most likely to be older males with a current psychiatric disorder, usually an… 
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