Browsing by Keyword "suicide"
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Actions speak louder than words: An elaborated theoretical model of the social functions of self-injury and other harmful behaviors
(Elsevier BV, 2008)The question of why some people do things that are intentionally harmful to themselves continues to puzzle scientists, clinicians, and the public. Prior studies have demonstrated that one fairly extreme, direct form of ... -
Annual Research Review: Suicide among youth - epidemiology, (potential) etiology, and treatment
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Background: Suicide is a leading cause of death and a complex clinical outcome. Here we summarize the current state of research pertaining to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth. We review their definitions/measurement ... -
Are Self-Injurers Impulsive?
(Elsevier, 2009)Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals’ self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are ... -
The association between smoking and subsequent suicide-related outcomes in the National Comorbidity Survey panel sample
(Springer Nature, 2008)Controversy exists about whether the repeatedly-documented associations between smoking and subsequent suicide-related outcomes (SROs; ideation, plans, gestures, and attempts) are due to unmeasured common causes or to ... -
Attentional bias toward suicide-related stimuli predicts suicidal behavior.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2010)A long-standing challenge for scientific and clinical work on suicidal behavior is that people often are motivated to deny or conceal suicidal thoughts. We proposed that people considering suicide would possess an objectively ... -
Child Maltreatment, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, and the Mediating Role of Self-Criticism
(Elsevier, 2007)We examined the relation between child maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Participants were 86 adolescents who completed measures of child maltreatment, self-criticism, perceived criticism, depression, and ... -
Do Atypical Antipsychotics Have Antisuicidal Effects? A Hypothesis-Generating Overview
(MDPI, 2016)Modern antipsychotic drugs are employed increasingly in the treatment of mood disorders as well as psychoses, stimulating interest in their possible contributions to altering suicidal risk. Clozapine remains the only ... -
Effects of Intravenous Ketamine on Explicit and Implicit Measures of Suicidality in Treatment-Resistant Depression
(Elsevier, 2009)Background Intravenous ketamine has shown rapid antidepressant effects in early trials, making it a potentially attractive candidate for depressed patients at imminent risk of suicide. The Implicit Association Test (IAT), ... -
Emotional Intelligence is a Protective Factor for Suicidal Behavior
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2009)Objective: Little is known about what factors protect against the occurrence of suicide ideation and attempts. We tested whether emotional intelligence (EI)—the ability to perceive, integrate, understand, and manage one’s ... -
Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)The purpose of this study was to review the current evidence base of psychosocial treatments for suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth. We reviewed major scientific databases ... -
Examining Affect and Decision-Making in Relation to Suicide
(2021-09-08)Suicide is one of the most tragic, costly, and perplexing of all human behaviors. Despite millennia of scholarly inquiry and a century of empirical research, we still do not know why people kill themselves. Thus, suicide ... -
Explaining Suicide in an Urban Slum of Mumbai, India
(Hogrefe & Huber, 2009)Background: Health demographic mortality studies use verbal autopsies to identify suicide as a cause of death. Psychological autopsies focus almost exclusively on associated high-risk psychiatric disorders. New approaches ... -
Factors that distinguish college students with depressive symptoms with and without suicidal thoughts
(Springer, 2013)BACKGROUND Suicide among college students is a significant public health concern. Although suicidality is linked to depression, not all depressed college students experience suicidal ideation (SI). The primary aim of ... -
FDA Regulation and Patient Assisted Suicides
(1995)There are an increasing number of Americans who believe that the marginal benefit of surviving a few extra months is not worth the cost of suffering the pain, physical and/or mental deterioration, or increased dependency ... -
The Food and Drug Administration's Deliberations on Antidepressant Use in Pediatric Patients
(American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2005)On February 2, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration organized a joint meeting of the Neuro-Psychopharmacologic Advisory Committee and Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee to examine the ... -
Measuring the Suicidal Mind: Implicit Cognition Predicts Suicidal Behavior
(SAGE Publications, 2010)Suicide is difficult to predict and prevent because people who consider killing themselves often are unwilling or unable to report their intentions. Advances in the measurement of implicit cognition provide an opportunity ... -
Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Suicidal Behavior: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
(Nature Publishing Group, 2009)Mental disorders are among the strongest predictors of suicide attempts. However, little is known about which disorders are uniquely associated with suicidal behavior due to high levels of psychiatric comorbidity. We ... -
Occupational differences in US Army suicide rates
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)Background Civilian suicide rates vary by occupation in ways related to occupational stress exposure. Comparable military research finds suicide rates elevated in combat arms occupations. However, no research has evaluated ... -
Overcoming the fear of lethal injury: Evaluating suicidal behavior in the military through the lens of the Interpersonal–Psychological Theory of Suicide
(Elsevier BV, 2010)Suicide rates have been increasing in military personnel since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it is vital that efforts be made to advance suicide risk assessment techniques and ... -
Parental psychopathology and the risk of suicidal behavior in their offspring: results from the World Mental Health surveys
(Springer Nature, 2010)Prior research suggests that parental psychopathology predicts suicidal behavior among offspring; however, the more fine-grained associations between specific parental disorders and distinct stages of the pathway to suicide ...