Citation

Pfeffer CR, Trad PV. J. Dev. Behav. Pediatr. 1988; 9(2): 86-88.

Affiliation

Division of Child Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center, White Plains, New York.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3366915

Abstract

This paper highlights factors associated with suicidal behavior in children who are approximately 3-6 years old. Similar suicidal risk factors found in older children, such as depression, preoccupations with death, and family instability involving child abuse and other forms of parental psychopathology, are associated with suicidal impulses of preschool children. Assessment of these risk factors should be included in pediatric and mental health evaluations of such young children. Clinical vignettes are offered in this text.

Language: en