Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Health Article

BOOKS

Empfield, Maureen, and Nicholas Bakalar. Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management. New York: Owl Books, 2001.

King, Robert A., et al. Suicide in Children and Adolescents. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Spirito, Anthony, and James C. Overholser. Evaluating and Treating Adolescent Suicide Attempters: From Research to Practice. New York: Academic Press, 2002.

Wallerstein, Claire. Need to Know: Teenage Suicide. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, 2003.

PERIODICALS

Eckert, Tanya L., et al. "Adolescent Suicide Prevention: School Psychologists' Acceptability of School-based Programs." School Psychology Review (Winter 2003): 57–76.

Fritz, Gregory K. "Prevention of Child and Adolescent Suicide." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter (September 2001): 8.

Norton, Patrice G. W. "Prevention Plan Reduces Teen Suicide Attempts." Clinical Psychiatry News (May 2004): 44.

Perlstein, Steve. "TeenScreen Flags Adolescents at Risk of Suicide." Clinical Psychiatry News (April 2004): 43.

Portes, Pedro R., et al. "Understanding Adolescent Suicide: A Psycho-social Interpretation of Developmental and Contextual Factors." Adolescence (Winter 2002): 805–814.

ORGANIZATIONS

American Association of Suicidology. 4201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 408, Washington, DC 20008. Web site: <www.suicidology.org>.

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education. 7317 Cahill Road, Suite 207, Minneapolis, MN 55424. Web site: <www.save.org>.

Yellow Ribbon International Suicide Prevention Program. PO Box 644, Westminster, CO 80036. Web site: <www.yellowribbon.org>.

WEB SITES

Columbia University. TeenScreen, 2003. Available online at <www.teenscreen.org> (accessed August 12, 2004).

"Depression and Suicide Page," 2004. Available online at <www.teenlineonline.org/helparchives/depression.htm> (accessed August 12, 2004).

Screening for Mental Health, Inc. "SOS High School Suicide Prevention Program", 2004. Available online at <www.mentalhealthscreening.org/sos_highschool/> (accessed August 12, 2004).

Ken R. Wells