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Publication Date: 1990
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A Suicidal Adolescent's Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Cessation Orientations toward Dying, Sleep, and Drugs.
Babow, Irving; Rowe, Robin
Adolescence, v25 n100 p791-98 Win 1990
In study of hospitalized suicidal youth, account of 16-year-old girl, diagnosed as schizophrenic, is analyzed to gain insight into family's role in suicidal career of adolescent preoccupied with death and dying, sleep, and drugs; the interplay of her construction of reality with her risk-taking, self-injurious way of life; and her perceived problems of living and need for help. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Death, Drug Use, Females, Hospitalized Children, Psychiatric Hospitals, Schizophrenia, Sleep, Suicide
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - General
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Language: English
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