Suicide Across the Life Span: Premature Exits

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Taylor & Francis, 1996 - 349 pages
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Contents

Suicide Then and
1
Toward a Definition of Suicide
16
The Cohort Perspective
28
Summary
38
The Behavioral Perspective
53
The Cognitive Perspective
61
Suggested Additional Readings
71
Chapter 4
90
Suicide in Middle Adulthood
141
Suicide Among the Elderly
169
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
197
Approaches for Treating Suicidal People
237
Contemporary Issues in Suicide
269
Afterword
293
References
303
Index
325

Suicide in Young Adulthood
121

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