There is always a moment of shock, or horror--and for any parent, of fear--when a teenager chooses suicide. How could this happen? Didn't his parents know he was so depressed? She was so pretty, such a high achiever--what went wrong Andrew Slaby, a psychiatrist specializing in depression and crisis intervention, and Lili Garfinkel, a parent educator, shed light on these perplexing questions. They present psychological profiles of eight severely depressed adolescents who either attempted or committed suicide. In reading the teens' journals and talking with their family and friends, they found...
There is always a moment of shock, or horror--and for any parent, of fear--when a teenager chooses suicide. How could this happen? Didn't his parents ...