Counseling and therapy of children and their families after suicide attempts
Rotthaus, W.
Zeitschrift für Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung 92(2): 93-98
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1431-7621 PMID: 9577896 Document Number: 486168
The suicidal action of a child has to be seen as an attempt to draw attention of those around it to its hopeless conditions of life. Professional aid is required and has to include all those to whom the child relates. Not the question of cause and guilt has to be discussed but the perspective of living without the idea of suicide and the demands of support for achieving this aim.