Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Suicidal Behavior

It has been assumed that impaired intellectual capacity could act as a buffer to suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability. The few studies that have been conducted contest this assumption, and in fact, the findings showed that the characteristics of suic...

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Autores principales: Merrick, Joav, Merrick, Efrat, Morad, Mohammed, Kandel, Isack
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2005
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16155686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.90
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description It has been assumed that impaired intellectual capacity could act as a buffer to suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability. The few studies that have been conducted contest this assumption, and in fact, the findings showed that the characteristics of suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability are very similar to other adolescents without intellectual disability. This paper reviews the few studies conducted and describe the symptomatology in this population.
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spelling pubmed-59365792018-06-03 Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Suicidal Behavior Merrick, Joav Merrick, Efrat Morad, Mohammed Kandel, Isack ScientificWorldJournal Review Article It has been assumed that impaired intellectual capacity could act as a buffer to suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability. The few studies that have been conducted contest this assumption, and in fact, the findings showed that the characteristics of suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability are very similar to other adolescents without intellectual disability. This paper reviews the few studies conducted and describe the symptomatology in this population. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2005-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5936579/ /pubmed/16155686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.90 Text en Copyright © 2005 Joav Merrick et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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