Family history of illness in the seriously suicidal adolescent: a life-cycle approach.
Highly suicidal, depressed adolescents were compared to nonsuicidal depressed adolescents with regard to family history of illness. Chronic psychiatric illness of a parent, particularly depression occurring during the childhood of patients, was found to be more frequent among families of highly suicidal adolescents. Implications of this finding are considered.
D000293:Adolescent; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*