TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - A suicidal adolescent's Sleeping Beauty syndrome: cessation orientations toward dying, sleep, and drugs
JO  - Adolescence
A1  - Babow, I.
A1  - Rowe, R.
SP  - 791
EP  - 798
VL  - 25
IS  - 100
N2  - In a study of hospitalized suicidal youth, the account of a sixteen-year-old girl, diagnosed as schizophrenic, is analyzed to gain insight into a family's role in the suicidal career of an adolescent preoccupied with death and dying, sleep, and drugs; the interplay of her construction of reality with her risk-taking, self-injurious way of life; and her perceived problems of living and need for help. Her cessation orientations revealed a kind of Sleeping Beauty syndrome with fantasies on sleep, drugs, and death, including a death of the mind from overdosing. Such qualitative research on suicidal careers may increase our understanding of the at-risk adolescent population and assist in the development of a policy for identifying and meeting needs and following up on clues for prevention and early intervention.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-8449
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -