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F Specht

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[Repeated suicide attempts by children and adolescents--results of a retrospective study].

Children and adolescents who had attempted suicide once are at higher risk for further suicide attempts. In order to better identify those likely to make a further suicide attempt, they were compared at the time of their first suicide attempt with those who had only attempted suicide once. The details of all children and adolescents who had attempted suicide and been treated as inpatients or outpatients in the University Hospital in Göttingen, Germany, over a 10-year period were collected by file-analysis. Sociodemographic characteristics, stresses that preceded the suicide attempts and the chosen methods of attempted suicide were ascertained. 55 male und 116 female subjects had attempted suicide once, 17 male and 79 female subjects had attempted suicide more than once. Those with repeated suicide attempts were younger at the time of their first suicide attempt at 14 years and eight months, than those who did not make a repeat attempt, at 15 years and 7 months. Male repeaters more often experienced conflicts with their parents. Female repeaters were suffering more from emotional or chronic physical diseases and more often drank alcohol in connection with their first suicide attempt. Paediatricians, who are often the first to be confronted with suicide attempts by young people, should work towards providing psychotherapeutic support especially for children and younger adolescents with the particular stresses described.

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[Collaboration of the involved psychosocial systems in the management of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders].

Described and discussed here are the concrete need for professional help for children and juveniles with psychological problems as well as support systems and their institutions. The necessity of cooperation between systems and institutions is explained, and the obstacles to and problems involved in such cooperation are outlined. The attitudes toward cooperation held by professionals and the expectations and views of those in need of help are compared.

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[Foster care placement and self determination].

Tension exists between the reality of outside placement and the tendency toward self-determination. The importance of this tension is examined by way of the history of outside placement, the current practice of outside placement, and the experience of the children involved; the relationship to protective conditions is also examined.

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