Mutual Storytelling: An Intervention for Depressed and Suicidal Children.

Toolan, 1978). In reality, however, Hippie (1987) further noted that sui about 200 suicides of children under cidal behavior evolves through three age 12 are reported annually in the stages. During the first stage, the child United States (Hippie, 1987). Alis experiencing some type of stressful though children in this age range do life situation, such as an illness in the not succeed in committing suicide family, parental marital conflict, a often, many young children are manideath in the family, or academic diffi festing self-destructive ideations. cukies xhe second stage is a period of Twenty-five thousand children are escalation of stress and intensification hospitalized annually in the United of the child>s feeling of helpleSSness States because they express suicidal and hopeiessness. The third phase is thoughts (Hippie, 1987). Hatton and [he „crisis int„ a( wh)ch ^ chi,d Valente (1984) reported that the inci• , • , , . . r ,i , perceives some dramatic threat to his dence ot attempted and completed sui, „ , . . . , . . .r . , . or her well-being. The crisis stage is the cide amone school-age children contin• _ , ? i u • . ° ... ° point at which the child is most poten npc fr* ricp romrilv 1 1