Medscape (11/25, Brooks) reports that approximately “one in 10 children as young as age three years may have suicidal thoughts or suggestive behaviors, and these linger into middle childhood for three of four children, particularly for those with depression or externalizing disorders,” according to the findings of a 306-child study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and funded by the National Institutes of Health. An editorial accompanying the study observed that “the numbers of children who express suicidal thoughts and engage in these behaviors are ‘larger than we might have guessed.’”
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