Diagnosis: Lovelessness. Apparent Actions and the System of Support for Children and Youth After Suicide Attempts Cover Image

Diagnoza: niemiłość? Działania pozorne a system wsparcia dzieci i młodzieży po próbach samobójczych
Diagnosis: Lovelessness. Apparent Actions and the System of Support for Children and Youth After Suicide Attempts

Author(s): Paulina Adamczyk
Subject(s): Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: suicide; suicide attempt; psychiatric care; apparent actions; the sociology of children and youth; family

Summary/Abstract: Despite the growing number of media reports about the severe crisis of the system of psychological and psychiatric care as well as related increase in the number of suicides and suicide attempts among children and youth, this subject is still absent from the political debate in Poland. Drawing on the review of relevant literature, statistical data, and media reports about children and youth psychiatry, this article attempts to describe selected contexts of this crisis in sociological terms. Special attention is paid to family relations – which are frequently a taboo topic in the Polish context – and their ambiguous influence on children and youth, also during the therapeutic process after the suicide attempts. The article also undertakes the theme of the institutional crisis of the Polish healthcare system regarding psychological and psychiatric care.

  • Issue Year: 17/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 114-134
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish