[Attempted suicide in children: suicidal development (author's transl)].
This is a report about 21 children, aged 10 till 15 years, who were admitted between 1977--1980 in a children's hospital because of attempted suicide. Exploration of the psychosocial situation and psychological tests brought many common factors of the suicidal development; a nonfunctioning relationship among the members of the family was the basal cause of a disturbed development of personality. This was responsible for failure in school, what was the cause for further problems in the family. There were many signs and symptoms of a presuicidal situation in each case, but in no one this was recognized by family or school.
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001317:Austria; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*
Selbstmordversuch bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Darstellung der suizidalen Entwicklung.