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Youth perceptions of suicide and help-seeking: ‘They'd think I was weak or “mental”’

Cate Curtis Department of Psychology, Waikato University, Hamilton, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 699-715 | Received 27 Mar 2009, Published online: 28 Jul 2010

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