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Foreword / Herbert Pardes -- An Introduction And Overview Of Youth Suicide / Calvin J. Frederick -- Part One. Psychodynamic Issues In Youth Suicide -- Suicide Among The Young: Psychodynamics And Demography / Herbert Hendin -- Observations Of Ego Functioning Of Suicidal Latency-age Children / Cynthia R. Pfeffer -- Case Studies In Youth Suicide / Robert E. Litman And Julie Diller -- Destructive Aspects Of The Cult Experience / David K. Wellisch And J. Thomas Ungerleider -- Part Two. Treatment Issues In Youth Suicide -- Treatment Concerns In Preventing Youth Suicide / Jerry A. Motto -- Crisis Intervention Treatment With Chronically And Acutely Suicidal Adolescents / Michael L. Peck -- Bipolar Affective Disorder: A Delinquent Variant / Noel Lustig And Maurice Zeitlin -- Part Three. Preventing Youth Suicide -- Teaching Children The Facts Of Life And Death: Suicide Prevention In The Schools / Charlotte P. Ross -- The Role Of Schools In Child, Adolescent And Youth Suicide Prevention / Irving H. Berkovitz -- Youth Suicide: A Summary / Norman L. Farberow. Michael L. Peck, Norman L. Farberow, Robert E. Litman, Editors; Foreword By Herbert Pardes. Includes Bibliographies And Index.