Citation

Sethi S, Bhargava SC. Crisis 2003; 24(1): 4-6.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India. reachsujata@rediffmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12809146

Abstract

Suicide in a family is distressing for each and every member. Children and adolescents bereaved by suicide are known to be more at risk of suffering from a variety of psychiatric problems, especially affective disorders. A group of children and adolescents who experienced a suicidal death in the family were assessed for psychiatric problems as well as for social adjustment. The findings suggest that the bereaved children and adolescents are at elevated risk for major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and impaired social adjustment.

Language: en