Parents' awareness of children's suicide attempts



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Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:1364-1366
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association

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Parents' awareness of children's suicide attempts

M Walker, D Moreau and MM Weissman
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

In independent psychiatric interviews with 175 children and their mothers, either the mother or the child reported that 13 (7%) of the children had made a suicide attempt. Eight of the 13 children reported attempts that were not reported by their mothers.

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