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Psychological Interventions for the Suicidal Adolescent

Supportive therapy and long-term expressive therapy in a structured framework are two modalities of treatment for acute and chronic characterological suicidal adolescents, respectively. Issues of family intervention, patient’s honesty, and countertransferences such as withdrawal from, or rejection of, the patient need to be taken into account.

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