[Suicidal behavioural characteristics in depressive states in children and adolescents]

The author discusses 40 cases of suicidal attempts in children and adolescents with depressive states of a different nosological affinity. Special attention was drawn to the different traits of a depressive syndrome connected with the formation of suicidal tendencies. The data obtained demonstrate that the degree of a suidal risk depends not only on the depth and quality of depressions, but on the nosological and syndromal traits. A special role in the genesis of a suicidal attempt belongs to supplementary psychotraumatizing factors.