Approach to adolescent suicide prevention
Approach to adolescent suicide prevention
OBJECTIVE: To provide family physicians with an approach to suicide prevention in youth.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: A literature review was performed using Ovid MEDLINE with the key words suicide, attempted suicide, and evaluation studies or program evaluation, adolescent.
MAIN MESSAGE: Youth suicide might be prevented by earlier recognition and treatment of mental illness. Family physicians can and should screen for mental illness in youth; there are many diagnostic and treatment resources available to assist with this.
CONCLUSION: Earlier detection and treatment of mental illness are the most important ways family physicians can reduce morbidity and mortality for youth who are contemplating suicide.
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Canada, Child, Child Abuse/psychology, Confidentiality, Cross-Sectional Studies, Family Practice/methods, Female, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Risk Factors, Risk Reduction Behavior, Suicide/prevention & control, Young Adult
755-760
Kostenuik, Marcia
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Ratnapalan, Mohana
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August 2010
Kostenuik, Marcia
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Ratnapalan, Mohana
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Kostenuik, Marcia and Ratnapalan, Mohana
(2010)
Approach to adolescent suicide prevention.
Canadian Family Physician, 56 (8), .
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To provide family physicians with an approach to suicide prevention in youth.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: A literature review was performed using Ovid MEDLINE with the key words suicide, attempted suicide, and evaluation studies or program evaluation, adolescent.
MAIN MESSAGE: Youth suicide might be prevented by earlier recognition and treatment of mental illness. Family physicians can and should screen for mental illness in youth; there are many diagnostic and treatment resources available to assist with this.
CONCLUSION: Earlier detection and treatment of mental illness are the most important ways family physicians can reduce morbidity and mortality for youth who are contemplating suicide.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 12 August 2010
Published date: August 2010
Keywords:
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Canada, Child, Child Abuse/psychology, Confidentiality, Cross-Sectional Studies, Family Practice/methods, Female, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Risk Factors, Risk Reduction Behavior, Suicide/prevention & control, Young Adult
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Marcia Kostenuik
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