Suicide in Children and adolescents: a review of articles about this topic

Abstract

Nowadays, depression in adolescents is understood to be a common, disabling and recurrent disease, with a high level of morbidity and mortality. Thus, it is an important public health problem. Suicide is the act of intentionally ending one’s own life. It is related to biological, social, environmental factors and to the personal history, so, is a complex and multifactor phenomenon. The lack of research and literature with this population hinders the comprehension of the phenomenon and so the improvement of interventions in the field of prevention and care for survivors.  This paper reviews on clinical and epidemiological aspects of suicide in Children, definitions and expressions of suicide among adolescents people are presented, identifying possible risk factors and prevention interventions are discussed.