Suicide: individual, cultural, international perspectives
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Suicide: individual, cultural, international perspectives
Guilford, c1997
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"Special issue, Suicide and life-threatening behavior, 27(1), spring 1997"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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