Suicide: individual, cultural, international perspectives
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Suicide: individual, cultural, international perspectives
Guilford, c1997
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Note
"Special issue, Suicide and life-threatening behavior, 27(1), spring 1997"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume aims to advance prevention efforts in the USA and around the world by exploring the meaning and prevalence of suicide from a multicultural perspective. The chapters comprise both clinical case studies and broader empirical investigations.
Table of Contents
- Part I Individual perspectives: the adolescent - the individual in cultural perspective, Berman
- Rick - a suicide of a young adult, Leenaars
- culture and ego-ideal in suicide - an adult case, Maltsberger
- being suicidal and elderly in changing times - a case history, Richman
- social suicide, Maris. Part II Cultural perspectives: suicide in America - a nation of immigrants, Lester
- suicide - the scourge of Native American people, EchoHawk
- African-American suicide - a cultural paradox, Gibbs
- suicide in San Francisco, USAU - a comparison of caucasian and Asian groups, 1987- 1994, Shian, et al
- suicidality among acculturating Mexican Americans - current knowledge and directions for research, Hoovey, King. Part III International perspectives
- suicide in an international perspective, Lester
- suicide in Canada with special reference to the difference between Canada and the United States, Sakinofsky, Leenaars
- perspectives - suicide in Europe, Schmidtke
- culture and suicide - from a a Japanese psychiatrist's perspective, Takahshi.
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