In: Recent Advances in Clinical Psychiatry 1992; 7:1-13
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Reprinted from Recent Advances in Clinical Psychiatry Volume 7, K. Granville-Grossman. (ed), "Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescents", P. Taylor, K. Burton, I. Kolvin, pp. 1-13 (©Churchill Livingstone 1992).
Abstract:
It is common practice to call non-fatal self-inflicted intended harm by ingestion or otherwise 'attempted suicide' or parasuicide; self-inflicted death is termed 'completed suicide', even if the attempt or perceived wish to die is weak.
The last two decades have seen increases in rates of suicide and death in older children and teenage youths. Only a minority of parasuicides intend their action to be lethal.