
%0 Journal Article
%T Problems posed by the Werther effect as a 'net effect': a comment on recent scholarly work on the effects of <i>13 Reasons Why</i>
%J British journal of psychiatry
%D 2019
%A Arendt, Florian
%A Romer, Daniel
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X Recent research estimated that an additional 195 suicides among 10- to 17-year-old youths occurred following the release of the television series 13 Reasons Why. There is an underrecognised aspect in this line of research that this effect represents a net effect based on different possible underlying patterns (e.g. +195/-0 or +395/-200).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Royal College of Psychiatry
%@ 0007-1250
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.197