Includes bibliographical references and index.

The epidemiology of youth suicide / Madelyn S. Gould, David Shaffer, Ted Greenberg -- Suicide and the "continuum of adolescent self-destructiveness": is there a connection? / Robert A. King, Vladislav V. Ruchkin, Mary E. Schwab-Stone -- Adolescent attempted suicide / Alan Apter, Danuta Wasserman -- Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior / David A. Brent, J. John Mann -- Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents / Alan Apter -- Psychodynamics approaches to youth suicide / Robert A. King -- Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide / Michael J. Kelleher, Derek Chambers -- An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young / Alan L. Berman -- Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents / Cynthia R. Pfeffer -- Suicide prevention for adolescents / Israel Orbach -- Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence / Richard Harrington, Younus Saleem -- Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters / Julie Boergers, Anthony Spirito -- Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death: implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions / Cornelia L. Gallo, Cynthia R. Pfeffer.