Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Recent Tendencies in Suicide and Mental Health Among Younger Generations and Current Explanations; Youth suicides-is it really growing worldwide?; Suicide among young people in the European continent; Children and adolescent suicides in the countries of the former USSR; Youth suicides in Asia and the Far East; Situation in North America, Australia, and New Zealand; Suicide among young people in Latin America and Africa; Youth is under threat-preliminary conclusions; Youth mental health problems-are they growing too?

Subjective complaints in adolescents and values shift as signs of stress; References; Chapter 2 -- Neurobiology of Stress-From Homeostasis to Allostasis and How Social Environment is Involved; Psychosocial stress and modernization; Neuroendocrinology of stress response-how psychosocial stress affects health; From homeostasis to allostasis and how social environment is involved; Stress and the brain-mental health consequences; Stress across the life-span and social factors; References; Chapter 3 -- What Is Epigenetics? Is It Transgenerational?

Epigenetics-new life of old ideas and modern definitions; Molecular mechanisms of epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance-a short review; Epigenetics and ontogenetic programming; Epigenetic events in preembryonic and early embryonic development; Nutrition, body growth, and epigenetics of older age diseases; Epigenetics of ecological hazards, in aging and cancer; Epigenetic paradigm and evolutionary biology; References; Chapter 4 -- Biological Embedding-How Early Life Stress Shapes Behaviors Later in Life and How Vulnerability is Built; Early life stress and behavioral epigenetics-animal models.

Early life stress and epigenetic programming of behavior and mental health in humans; Life-time stress experiences and epigenetics; Biological embedding-how social environment "gets under the skin"; References; Chapter 5 -- Interactions and Integrations-Biobehavioral Model of Suicide Based on Genetics, Epigenetics, and Behavioral Adjustment; Theories and models of suicidal behavior-how they encounter stress; Heritability of suicide-classical behavioral genetics studies; Suicide genetics-genes-to-environment interactions and vulnerable phenotypes; Epigenetic findings in suicide.

Biobehavioral-psychological-existential model of suicide; References; Chapter 6 -- Ideas for Prevention; Conceptual framework and prevention strategies limitations; How resilience is built? The earlier-the better; Adolescents' resilience-the power of body and mind; Adolescents' resilience-the power of meaning; References; Conclusions; Index; Back Cover.

Includes index.

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