Life Span Perspectives of Suicide

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A.A. Leenaars
Springer Science & Business Media, 31. 1. 1991 - 325 strán (strany)
In recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on suicide in the elderly and in the young. However, in line with modem trends in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, and other human health fields, interest has now shifted to suicide across the life span, from childhood through adulthood to old age. This book has been conceptualized within this developing tradition. There are various ways in which life's timelines can be conceptualized. Developmental theory, we believe, should be open-ended. This has widened-and will continue to widen-our understanding of many complicated human acts including suicide. Though suicide is in many ways the same across the entire life span, understanding the time-lines in the suicidal process is imperative. To do so, however, is, we believe, challenging. In this volume, we attempt to engage in the process of understanding suicide from a developmental perspective. To do this, we have been fortunate to obtain the cooperation of a highly competent group of contributors. One interesting footnote to our list of authorities is that they represent suicidologists from across the life span-a few who are at the beginning of their careers, a large number in their middle years, and a few who are in the Indian summer of their professional lives.

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INTRODUCTION
1
A Brief Introduction to the Stages of Development
17
The Developmental Perspective of Suicide
25
The Commonalities of Suicide across the Life Span
39
EPIDEMIOLOGY
53
A Look at International
71
Death on Stocktaking Occasions
81
Suicide in the SchoolAge Child and Adolescent
95
Suicide and the Elderly
153
CORRELATES OF SUICIDE
169
Suicide in Different Ages from a CrossCultural Perspective
215
SURVIVOR ISSUES
229
Research Problems
259
PREVENTING SUICIDE
281
The Prevention of Suicide in Adults
295
A Life Span Perspective of Suicide
311

From the Nomothetic
109
Suicide in the Young Adult
121
Suicide in Middle Adulthood
137

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