Claudine Fox is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick. Her other research interests include childhood onset eating problems and children's knowledge and understanding of mental as well as physical illness. Keith Hawton is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University. He is co-editor of the International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide and has been presented with awards from the International Association for Suicide Prevention (1995), the American Association of Suicidology (2001), and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2002).

• Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The prevalence of suicidal behaviour in adolescence. 3. Risk factors for adolescent suicidal behaviour. 4. Identifying at-risk adolescents. 5. Services for adolescents. 6. The outcome of suicidal behaviour in adolescence. 7. Managing adolescent suicidal behaviour. 8. Preventing adolescent suicidal behaviour 9. Future prospects. Resources. Appendix. References. Indexes. About FOCUS.

Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence addresses the seriousness and importance of the issue of self-harming behaviour in adolescence, and in particular the pressing need for awareness and research. The publication provides rigorous current research and an associated understanding of a number of issues relating to self - hard and more particularly suicide. Commissioned by FOCUS, a child and adolescent mental health project which aims to promote evidence based practice through the dissemination of information, the book reviews existing literature, critically appraises current research and ultimately establishes a knowledge based and practice base regarding self-harming and suicidal behaviour.