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Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Suicidal Behavior

Author(s) -

Joav Merrick,

Efrat Merrick,

Mohammed Morad,

Isack Kandel

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2005.90

Subject(s) - intellectual disability , contest , population , psychology , psychiatry , borderline intellectual functioning , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health , cognition , political science , law

It has been assumed that impaired intellectual capacity could act as a buffer to suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability. The few studies that have been conducted contest this assumption and in fact the findings showed that the characteristics of suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability are very similar to other adolescents without intellectual disability. This paper reviews the few studies conducted and describe the symptomatology in this population.

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