title: Overview and assessment of the suicidal child.
abstract: A comprehensive evaluation and assessment of the suicidal child is important to target those at risk. This article identifies risk factors for suicide in children and adolescents and provides a step-by-step interview scheme that captures all relevant information that is obtained when assessing these children and adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. weller@email.chop.edu
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Weller
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Rohrbaugh
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Weller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*