Working with the risk of suicide in young people.

This paper provides a psychoanalytic framework for working with adolescents at risk of suicide, which, it is argued, is essential for understanding the wide range of presentations of suicidality in adolescence, and for making sense of the powerful emotional impact of this work on the worker. The pap...

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Published in:	Journal of Social Work Practice Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 135 - 149
Main Author:	Briggs, Stephen
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2002
Subjects:	Adolescence Social work with teenagers Suicide Teenage suicide Psychoanalysis Teenagers Causes of death Offenses against the person
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