Internet resources for preventing suicide

Internet and Suicide

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-97

  Pompili, Maurizio ^a,b   Lester, David ^c   Innamorati, Marco ^d   Forte, Alberto ^a   Iacorossi, Giulia ^a   Dominici, Giovanni ^a   Sapienza, Laura ^a   Tatarelli, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÀ EUROPEA DI ROMA   (Italy)

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