Filicide-suicide: Common factors in parents who kill their children and themselves

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 496-504

  Friedman, Susan Hatters ^a   Hrouda, Debra R ^a,b   Holden, Carol E ^c   Noffsinger, Stephen G ^b   Resnick, Phillip J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILIXIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MOTIVATION; OFFENDER; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CHILD; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE;

EID: 29444447146     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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