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Last year alone, approximately one thousand people committed suicide in Hong Kong. Of this number, a significant proportion were children of school age. This is obviously an alarming figure and the society keeps questioning what drives these vulnerable youngsters to take their own lives.
Today¡¦s young people in Hong Kong are encountering a multiplicity of unusual stressors that tax their ability to cope. (Elkind, 1984) When they fail to endure the pressure pr...

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