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Knowledge about how to prevent youth suicide and self-harm is extremely limited and this is partly due to, as White (forthcoming) indicates below, the dominance of narrow, psychomedical formulations of suicidal despair:
To date, suicidology scholars have generally shown little enthusiasm for engaging in any form of reflexive critique that would allow the foundational assumptions upon which the field rests to be exposed for scrutiny and analysis.
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McDermott, E., Roen, K. (2016). Promoting Liveable Lives. In: Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003454_8
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