著者

GREYDANUS Donald E. BACOPOULOU Flora TSALAMANIOS Emmanuel

出版者

The Keio Journal of Medicine

雑誌

Keio journal of medicine (ISSN:00229717)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.58, no.2, pp.95-102, 2009-06-01

参考文献数

87

被引用文献数

27

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The tragedy of suicide in adolescents is experienced by all countries of the world with as many as 200,000 youth and young adults ending their life in the prime of their life because of self-murder each year. Such a tragedy should be unacceptable to clinicians of the world and this article examines factors leading to such death in our youth with recommendations on how to prevent such a worldwide carnage. A major issue in suicide prevention is to screen all children and adolescents for depression and other factors that may trigger suicide in adolescence.