Profile of a Metropolitan North American Immigrant Suicidal Adolescent Population

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 155-159

  Greenfield, Brian ^a,b,i   Rousseau, Cécile ^a,b   Slatkoff, Joshua ^c   Lewkowski, Maxime ^d   Davis, Michael ^b,d   Dube, Sébastien ^b   Lashley, Myrna E ^b,e,f   Morin, Isabelle ^b   Dray, Patti ^g   Harnden, Bonnie ^b,h  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e JOHN ABBOTT COLLEGE   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g Argyle Institute of Human Relations   (Canada)

^h Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

ⁱ Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Immigrant; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORTH AMERICA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE;

EID: 33645550966     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370605100305     Document Type: Article

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