Suicidal Behaviors in Adolescents With ADHD: Associations With Depressive and Other Comorbidity, Parent–Child Conflict, Trauma Exposure, and Impairment

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 680-690

  Daviss, W Burleson ^a,b   Diler, Rasim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent ADHD; impairment; parent child conflict; suicidal behavior; trauma exposure

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; CRIME VICTIM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 84910030366     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054712451127     Document Type: Article

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