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'''David Shaffer''' F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., (born 20 April 1936) is the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City,<ref>[https://www.bbrfoundation.org/about/people/david-shaffer-md]</ref> now the [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons]]. Dr. Shaffer has also been the chief of pediatric psychiatry at [[New York–Presbyterian Hospital]] and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, [[New York State Psychiatric Institute]].
'''David Percy Shaffer''' (April 20, 1936 – October 15, 2023) was a South African-born British-American physician and pediatrician. He was the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbrfoundation.org/about/people/david-shaffer-md|title = David Shaffer, M.D.|date = July 24, 2017}}</ref> now the [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons]]. Shaffer was also the chief of pediatric psychiatry at [[New York–Presbyterian Hospital]] and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, [[New York State Psychiatric Institute]]. He was the former spouse of British-American journalist [[Anna Wintour]].


== Training ==
== Training ==
Shaffer was born in [[Johannesburg]], South Africa, on April 20, 1936,<ref name="nytimes" /> In the late 1940s and early 1950s he attended the [[International School of Geneva]] as a boarder, since his father did not want him to be educated in the racist society of South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In memoriam of Dr. David Shaffer (La Grande Boissière, 1954) |url=https://connect.ecolint.ch/news/23509 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Ecolint Connect |language=en}}</ref>

Shaffer obtained his medical training in London, England. He qualified as a physician at [[University College London]], undertook his training in paediatrics at [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]] for children in London, and trained at the [[Maudsley Hospital]].


== Study of suicide ==
== Study of suicide ==
At the Maudsley, Shaffer conducted the first epidemiological study of child and early adolescent suicide using the [[Norman Farberow#The psychological autopsy|psychological autopsy method]].<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 4459418 | volume=15 | issue=4 | title=Suicide in childhood and early adolescence | year=1974 | journal=J Child Psychol Psychiatry | pages=275–91 | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D | doi=10.1111/j.1469-7610.1974.tb01252.x}}</ref> He found that there was a short delay between experiencing a stressor and the act of suicide, youth tended to show elevated levels of aggressive behavior prior to committing suicide, and imitation appeared to play a role in youth suicide. These findings would later be confirmed in his much larger controlled study in New York City and the surrounding area.<ref name="Shaffer, 1996">Shaffer, D., Gould, M.S., Fisher, P., Trautman, P., Moreau, D., Kleinman, M., & Flory, M. (1996). Psychiatric Diagnosis in Child and Adolescent Suicide. ''Archives of General Psychiatry, 53''(4), 339-348. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830040075012. {{PMID|8634012}}.</ref> Other important findings from the New York study included the very high prevalence of alcohol and [[substance abuse]] in older male teens who committed suicide and the occurrence of a prior suicide attempt as a predictor of suicide in males, but not females. In females, [[major depression]] was especially important predictor of suicide.<ref name="Shaffer, 1996"/>

At the Maudsley, Shaffer conducted the first epidemiological study of child and early adolescent suicide using the [[Norman Farberow#The psychological autopsy|psychological autopsy method]].<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 4459418 | volume=15 | issue=4 | title=Suicide in childhood and early adolescence | year=1974 | journal=J Child Psychol Psychiatry | pages=275–91 | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D | doi=10.1111/j.1469-7610.1974.tb01252.x}}</ref> He found that there was a short delay between experiencing a stressor and the act of suicide, youth tended to show elevated levels of aggressive behavior prior to committing suicide, and imitation appeared to play a role in youth suicide. These findings would later be confirmed in his much larger controlled study in New York City and the surrounding area.<ref name="Shaffer, 1996">Shaffer, D., Gould, M.S., Fisher, P., Trautman, P., Moreau, D., Kleinman, M., & Flory, M. (1996). Psychiatric Diagnosis in Child and Adolescent Suicide. ''Archives of General Psychiatry, 53''(4), 339-348. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830040075012. {{PMID|8634012}}.</ref> Other important findings from the New York study included the very high prevalence of alcohol and [[substance abuse]] in older male teens who committed suicide and the occurrence of a prior suicide attempt as a predictor of completed suicide in males, but not females. In females, [[major depression]] was especially important predictor of suicide.<ref name="Shaffer, 1996"/>


The finding of specific profiles and the almost universal presence of treatable psychiatric disorders among suicide victims suggested that case-finding would be a viable method for preventing suicide. However, one approach to case-finding, suicide-awareness educational programs, was found to offer few benefits and potentially increased risk.<ref>Shaffer, D., Garland, A., Vieland, V., Underwood, M., & Busnner, C. (1991). The impact of curriculum-based suicide prevention programs for teenagers. ''Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30'', 588-596. doi:https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199107000-0001</ref> This stimulated the development of a screening strategy instead.<ref>Kaplan, Arline (1 March 2006). "Battling a National Killer: TeenScreen Aims To Prevent Teen Suicide". Psychiatric Times. p. 1.</ref> Ultimately, Shaffer led a team of colleagues in creating the Columbia [[TeenScreen]]. The scoring algorithm had a [[sensitivity and specificity|sensitivity]] of 0.75, [[sensitivity_and_specificity#Specificity|specificity]] 0.83, and [[Positive and negative predictive values|positive predictive value]] 16% with suicidal ideation as the criterion.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Columbia Suicide Screen: Validity and Reliability of a Screen for Youth Suicide and Prevention|last = Shaffer|first = D|date = Jan 2004|journal = J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry|doi = 10.1097/00004583-200401000-00016|pmid = 14691362|display-authors=etal|volume=43|issue = 1|pages=71–9|url = http://www.edwatch.org/pdfs/Shaffer%20Validity-Reliability%202004.pdf}}</ref>
The finding of specific profiles and the almost universal presence of treatable psychiatric disorders among suicide victims suggested that case-finding would be a viable method for preventing suicide. However, one approach to case-finding, suicide-awareness educational programs, was found to offer few benefits and potentially increased risk.<ref>Shaffer, D., Garland, A., Vieland, V., Underwood, M., & Busnner, C. (1991). The impact of curriculum-based suicide prevention programs for teenagers. ''Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30'', 588-596. doi:https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199107000-0001</ref> This stimulated the development of a screening strategy instead.<ref>Kaplan, Arline (1 March 2006). "Battling a National Killer: TeenScreen Aims To Prevent Teen Suicide". Psychiatric Times. p. 1.</ref> Ultimately, Shaffer led a team of colleagues in creating the Columbia [[TeenScreen]]. The scoring algorithm had a [[sensitivity and specificity|sensitivity]] of 0.75, [[sensitivity_and_specificity#Specificity|specificity]] 0.83, and [[Positive and negative predictive values|positive predictive value]] 16% with suicidal ideation as the criterion.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Columbia Suicide Screen: Validity and Reliability of a Screen for Youth Suicide and Prevention|last = Shaffer|first = D|date = Jan 2004|journal = J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry|doi = 10.1097/00004583-200401000-00016|pmid = 14691362|display-authors=etal|volume=43|issue = 1|pages=71–9|url = http://www.edwatch.org/pdfs/Shaffer%20Validity-Reliability%202004.pdf}}</ref>


Other research interests included the development of diagnostic instruments. He was charged by the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIMH) to develop a child version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)<ref>Helzer, J. E, Robins, L. N., McEvoy, L.T., Spitznagel, E.L., Stoltzman, R..K., Farmer, A., et al. (1985). A comparison of clinical and diagnostic interview schedule diagnoses. ''Archives of General Psychiatry, 42'', 657-666.</ref> for use in large field studies. The NIMH DISC "is a highly structured diagnostic interview, designed to assess more than 30 psychiatric disorders occurring in children and adolescents, and can be administered by "lay" interviewers after a minimal training period."<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 10638065 | doi=10.1097/00004583-200001000-00014 | volume=39 | issue=1 | title=NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (NIMH DISC-IV): description, differences from previous versions, and reliability of some common diagnoses | journal=J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry | pages=28–38 | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D | last2 = Fisher | first2 = P | last3 = Lucas | first3 = CP | last4 = Dulcan | first4 = MK | last5 = Schwab-Stone | first5 = ME| year=2000 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Shaffer led the development of several editions of the DISC, including the version (NIMH DISC-IV), which is based closely on [[DSM-IV]].
== Study of diagnosis ==

Other research interests have included the development of diagnostic instruments. He was charged by the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIMH) to develop a child version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)<ref>Helzer, J. E, Robins, L. N., McEvoy, L.T., Spitznagel, E.L., Stoltzman, R..K., Farmer, A., et al. (1985). A comparison of clinical and diagnostic interview schedule diagnoses. ''Archives of General Psychiatry, 42'', 657-666.</ref> for use in large field studies. The NIMH DISC "is a highly structured diagnostic interview, designed to assess more than 30 psychiatric disorders occurring in children and adolescents, and can be administered by "lay" interviewers after a minimal training period."<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 10638065 | doi=10.1097/00004583-200001000-00014 | volume=39 | issue=1 | title=NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (NIMH DISC-IV): description, differences from previous versions, and reliability of some common diagnoses | journal=J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry | pages=28–38 | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D | last2 = Fisher | first2 = P | last3 = Lucas | first3 = CP | last4 = Dulcan | first4 = MK | last5 = Schwab-Stone | first5 = ME| year=2000 }}</ref> Shaffer has led the development of several editions of the DISC, including the version (NIMH DISC-IV), which is based closely on [[DSM-IV]]. DISC-IV includes a computerized version of the interview that incorporates voice technology. This has greatly reduced the cost of administration,{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} and allowed for self-completion by youth unable to read, obviating the constraining presence of an adult interviewer. The DISC has been translated into nine languages and has been used in approximately two hundred child research projects. Elements of the DISC have been employed by large, multi-site studies, such as the [[Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD]]; federally administered regular surveys, such as [[National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey]]; and a number of other longitudinal studies. The availability of the instrument has, for the first time, allowed careful examination of patterns of psychiatric comorbidity and how this emerges over time, a matter of great importance for the DSM. The [[American Psychiatric Association]] funded a grant to Shaffer's group to reexamine DISC data on twenty-six thousand subjects for the purpose of identifying critical questions for [[DSM-V]].

Shaffer's contribution to psychiatric classification dates back to 1966, when he collaborated with Sir [[Michael Rutter]] to explore the benefits of a multi-axial system for the [[ICD-9]]. The multi-axial modifications of the ICD-9 subsequently influenced the development of the DSM-III. He served on the Child and Adolescent Work Group for DSM-III and DSM-IIIR and was co-chair of that group for DSM-IV. He is currently a member of the Child and Adolescent Work Group and the [[Mood Disorder]]s Work Group for [[DSM-V]] and is co-chair of the [[Disruptive Behavior Disorders#Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders|Disruptive Behaviors Disorder]] Workgroup for DSM-V.


== Other research ==
== Other research ==

Building on data collected as part of the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital chapter of the multi-center [[Collaborative Perinatal Project]], Shaffer led a study of the sequelae of age-7 neurological soft signs.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D. | last2 = Schonfeld | first2 = I. | last3 = O'Connor | first3 = P.A. | last4 = Stokman | first4 = C. | last5 = Trautman | first5 = P. | last6 = Shafer | first6 = S. | last7 = Ng | first7 = S. | year = 1985 | title = Neurological soft signs: Their relationship to psychiatric disorder and intelligence in childhood and adolescence | journal = Archives of General Psychiatry | volume = 42 | issue = 4| pages = 342–351 | doi = 10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790270028003 | pmid = 3977551 }}</ref> In that study, Shaffer and his colleagues found that neurological soft signs diagnosed at age 7 were related to mood and anxiety disorders ten years later.
Building on data collected as part of the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital chapter of the multi-center [[Collaborative Perinatal Project]], Shaffer led a study of the sequelae of age-7 neurological soft signs.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Shaffer | first1 = D. | last2 = Schonfeld | first2 = I. | last3 = O'Connor | first3 = P.A. | last4 = Stokman | first4 = C. | last5 = Trautman | first5 = P. | last6 = Shafer | first6 = S. | last7 = Ng | first7 = S. | year = 1985 | title = Neurological soft signs: Their relationship to psychiatric disorder and intelligence in childhood and adolescence | journal = Archives of General Psychiatry | volume = 42 | issue = 4| pages = 342–351 | doi = 10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790270028003 | pmid = 3977551 }}</ref> In that study, Shaffer and his colleagues found that neurological soft signs diagnosed at age 7 were related to mood and anxiety disorders ten years later.


== Later years ==
== Later years ==
Shaffer retired as director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the [[New York State Psychiatric Institute]] (NYSPI)<ref>([http://www.nyspi.org/ New York State Psychiatric Institute])</ref>/Columbia University (CU) in May 2008.


== Personal life and death ==
Shaffer retired as director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the [[New York State Psychiatric Institute]]<ref>([http://www.nyspi.org/ New York State Psychiatric Institute])</ref>/Columbia University (CU) in May 2008, but retains his academic position and is actively engaged in research on DSM-5, the determinants and triggers of suicide ideation, and the categorization of suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescents. He thus maintains his ties with the Division of Child Psychiatry at NYSPI/CU, which, under his leadership, grew from a small department with seven hundred visits a year to one with over thirty five thousand; from one without research grants to one that holds a portfolio of over $30 million per annum; and from one with four child psychiatrists in training to one that is now the largest in the country, with five endowed chairs, over twenty-four clinical trainees, eight research trainees, and junior researchers from all continents.
Shaffer was married and divorced twice. His first wife was the caterer Serena Millington, by whom he had two sons. They divorced in 1983.<ref name="nytimes" /> His second wife, by whom he had a daughter and a son, was ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' editor-in-chief [[Anna Wintour]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/1460/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030103104250/http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/1460/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 3, 2003|title=The Summer of Her Discontent|last=Gray|first=Kevin|date=September 20, 1999|work=New York Magazine|access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref>


David Shaffer died from respiratory failure in [[Mastic, New York]], on October 15, 2023, at the age of 87. He also had Alzheimer’s disease in his later years.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|title=David Shaffer, Medical 'Detective' in Suicide of Youths, Dies at 87|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/health/david-shaffer-dead.html|date=18 October 2023|last=Barry|first=Ellen|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>
He has served as a consultant on [[suicide prevention]] for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Indian Health Service, and the York State Office of Mental Health. He was a member of the [[Surgeon General of the United States|Surgeon General]]’s Advisory Task Force on Suicide Prevention. He is a past president of the [[American Foundation for Suicide Prevention]] and of the [http://isrcap.org/ Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology].


== Awards and honours ==
== Publications ==
* Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS). Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1983;16(11):1228-1231. PubMed {{PMID|6639293}}.

* Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS) (for children 4 to 16 years of age). Psychopharmacol Bull. 1985; 1(4):747-748.
* The [[American Psychiatric Association]] awarded him the McGavin Award in 1995 and the Itteleson award in 2000.
* In 2007, he received lifetime achievement awards from [[NARSAD]] and from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
* He received the American Suicide Foundation's award for research in suicide in 1989 and the American Mental Health Fund Research Award for research on suicide in 1990.
* The [[American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry]] awarded him the Philips Prize for outstanding contribution to prevention in 1998, the Klingenstein Third-Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide in 2004, and the Catcher in the Rye Award in 2006.
* In 2009, he received the Joseph Zubin Award from the [[American Psychopathological Association]].

== Offices held ==

* President of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* President of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
* President elect of the International Society for Research in Suicide Prevention.
* Chairman of the Work Group on Research for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

In addition to these research studies, he has contributed to the debate about the relationship between SSRI [[antidepressants]] and suicidal behavior for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, and both the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

== Family life ==

He has been married and divorced twice. His first wife was the caterer Serena Bass, by whom he has two sons. His second wife, by whom he has a daughter and a son, was ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' editor-in-chief [[Anna Wintour]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/1460/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030103104250/http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/1460/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 3, 2003|title=The Summer of Her Discontent|last=Gray|first=Kevin|date=September 20, 1999|work=New York Magazine|access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref>


== References ==
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* Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS). Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1983;16(11):1228-1231. PubMed {{PMID|6639293}}.
* Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS) (for children 4 to 16 years of age). Psychopharmacol Bull. 1985; 1(4):747-748.
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Latest revision as of 17:04, 11 August 2024

For the education professor, see David Williamson Shaffer.

David Shaffer
FRCP, FRCPsych
Born
David Percy Shaffer

(1936-04-20)April 20, 1936
Johannesburg, South Africa
DiedOctober 15, 2023(2023-10-15) (aged 87)
Mastic, New York, U.S.
Alma materUniversity College London
Spouses
Serena Millington
​
(div. 1983)​
​
​
(m. 1984; div. 1999)​
Children4
RelativesFrancesco Carrozzini (son-in-law)
Scientific career
FieldsPediatric psychiatry
Institutions

David Percy Shaffer (April 20, 1936 – October 15, 2023) was a South African-born British-American physician and pediatrician. He was the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City,[1] now the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Shaffer was also the chief of pediatric psychiatry at New York–Presbyterian Hospital and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was the former spouse of British-American journalist Anna Wintour.

Training

[edit]

Shaffer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 20, 1936,[2] In the late 1940s and early 1950s he attended the International School of Geneva as a boarder, since his father did not want him to be educated in the racist society of South Africa.[3]

Study of suicide

[edit]

At the Maudsley, Shaffer conducted the first epidemiological study of child and early adolescent suicide using the psychological autopsy method.[4] He found that there was a short delay between experiencing a stressor and the act of suicide, youth tended to show elevated levels of aggressive behavior prior to committing suicide, and imitation appeared to play a role in youth suicide. These findings would later be confirmed in his much larger controlled study in New York City and the surrounding area.[5] Other important findings from the New York study included the very high prevalence of alcohol and substance abuse in older male teens who committed suicide and the occurrence of a prior suicide attempt as a predictor of suicide in males, but not females. In females, major depression was especially important predictor of suicide.[5]

The finding of specific profiles and the almost universal presence of treatable psychiatric disorders among suicide victims suggested that case-finding would be a viable method for preventing suicide. However, one approach to case-finding, suicide-awareness educational programs, was found to offer few benefits and potentially increased risk.[6] This stimulated the development of a screening strategy instead.[7] Ultimately, Shaffer led a team of colleagues in creating the Columbia TeenScreen. The scoring algorithm had a sensitivity of 0.75, specificity 0.83, and positive predictive value 16% with suicidal ideation as the criterion.[8]

Other research interests included the development of diagnostic instruments. He was charged by the National Institutes of Health (NIMH) to develop a child version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)[9] for use in large field studies. The NIMH DISC "is a highly structured diagnostic interview, designed to assess more than 30 psychiatric disorders occurring in children and adolescents, and can be administered by "lay" interviewers after a minimal training period."[10] Shaffer led the development of several editions of the DISC, including the version (NIMH DISC-IV), which is based closely on DSM-IV.

Other research

[edit]

Building on data collected as part of the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital chapter of the multi-center Collaborative Perinatal Project, Shaffer led a study of the sequelae of age-7 neurological soft signs.[11] In that study, Shaffer and his colleagues found that neurological soft signs diagnosed at age 7 were related to mood and anxiety disorders ten years later.

Later years

[edit]

Shaffer retired as director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)[12]/Columbia University (CU) in May 2008.

Personal life and death

[edit]

Shaffer was married and divorced twice. His first wife was the caterer Serena Millington, by whom he had two sons. They divorced in 1983.[2] His second wife, by whom he had a daughter and a son, was Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.[13]

David Shaffer died from respiratory failure in Mastic, New York, on October 15, 2023, at the age of 87. He also had Alzheimer’s disease in his later years.[2]

Publications

[edit]
  • Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS). Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1983;16(11):1228-1231. PubMed PMID 6639293.
  • Shaffer D, Gould MS, Brasic J, Ambrosini P, Fisher P, Bird H, Aluwahlia S. A children's global assessment scale (CGAS) (for children 4 to 16 years of age). Psychopharmacol Bull. 1985; 1(4):747-748.

References

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  1. ^ "David Shaffer, M.D." July 24, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Barry, Ellen (October 18, 2023). "David Shaffer, Medical 'Detective' in Suicide of Youths, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  3. ^ "In memoriam of Dr. David Shaffer (La Grande Boissière, 1954)". Ecolint Connect. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  4. ^ Shaffer, D (1974). "Suicide in childhood and early adolescence". J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 15 (4): 275–91. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1974.tb01252.x. PMID 4459418.
  5. ^ a b Shaffer, D., Gould, M.S., Fisher, P., Trautman, P., Moreau, D., Kleinman, M., & Flory, M. (1996). Psychiatric Diagnosis in Child and Adolescent Suicide. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53(4), 339-348. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830040075012. PMID 8634012.
  6. ^ Shaffer, D., Garland, A., Vieland, V., Underwood, M., & Busnner, C. (1991). The impact of curriculum-based suicide prevention programs for teenagers. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 588-596. doi:https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199107000-0001
  7. ^ Kaplan, Arline (1 March 2006). "Battling a National Killer: TeenScreen Aims To Prevent Teen Suicide". Psychiatric Times. p. 1.
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  12. ^ (New York State Psychiatric Institute)
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