Dr. Charles T. Stewart, a child psychiatrist with 25 years experience of working in both the public and private sectors, tells us that the stimulus for writing this book was the Colombine High School killings that took place on 20 April 1999. Sadly, this tragic mass murder and suicide was not an isolated incident either in America or in many other parts of the world. A report that followed from the U.S. Surgeon General, discussing the increase of suicide in young adults, now the 3^rd leading cause of death in this age group, led Dr. Stewart to begin a piece of extensive and systematic research into these catastrophic incidents. He believed that the common sense approach of exploring