First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

David K. Curran Public schools, Shrewsbury; Anna Maria College, Paxton; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester; Private practice, Worcester; Massachusetts

Chapter 1 Perspectives; Chapter 2 Scope of the Problem in the United States; Chapter 3 Meaning and Reasons: The Balance of Life and Death; Chapter 4 Antecedents of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior; Chapter 5 Postattempt: Human Environment and the Teenage Suicide Attempter; Chapter 6 The Wish and the Reality: Effect of Negative Attitudes on the Adolescent Suicide Attempter; Chapter 7 Familiarity, Modeling, and Imitation: Suicide in the Experience of the Adolescent; Chapter 8 Assessment; Chapter 9 Treatment; Chapter 10 Education and Prevention;