Suicidal behavior in Latinas: Explanatory cultural factors and implications for intervention

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 334-342

  Zayas, Luis H ^a   Pilat, Allyson M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY RELATIONS; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49649094017     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.3.334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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