Citation

Corder BF, Haizlip TM. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 1984; 14(1): 59-66.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6506132

Abstract

Research on suicide in latency age children is reviewed and case histories of two 9-year-old children who suicided by shooting themselves and one 7-year-old who died by self-poisoning are presented. Similarities in environmental and family histories, and in personality variables among these three cases have suggested underlying mechanisms in development and maintenance of symbiotically shared self-concept between parent and child which may be useful in helping to identify similar cases and in assessing potential for suicidal and self-destructive behavior in latency age children.