A model program for youth suicide prevention

Abstract

This study examined the positive and negative self-complexity of suicidal adolescents. Methods·. Thirty-two Israeli suicidal inpatients, thirty-two nonsuicidal inpatients and thirty-two control participants completed scales on self-complexity and suicidal tendencies. Self-complexity was based on Linville's measure and revealed four different aspects of self-complexity: number of positive/negative traits, number of positive/negative/neutral self-aspects, amount of redundancy of the positive/negative traits and subjective similarity between each two self-aspects. Results: In comparison with both psychiatric and control, the suicidal self was characterized by the highest number of negative traits and negative self-aspects. In comparison with control, the suicidal self was characterized by the highest number of positive categories and the lowest number of neutral categories and redundancy in the positive traits. No significant differences were found between the suicidal and the psychiatric in the number of positive and neutral self-aspects and in the level of redundancy of the positive traits. After Bonferroni post-hoc correction for multiple testing, the effects for the number of negative traits (F=28.53; pc.001), the number of negative self-aspects (F=15.59; p<.001) and the number of neutral self-aspects (F=28.14;p<.001) were still significant. Conclusions: The suicidal self is characterized by flooding of the negative aspects and a high differentiation of the positive ones. The suicidal self should be taken into consideration in both assessment and treatment of adolescents suicidality.

Deliberate Self-harm and Suicide in Adolescents

“…Programs for suicide prevention should be implemented for youth who are at risk for suicide, including those who self-injure themselves. 2,3,22,[98][99][100] More research on deliberate selfharm should be carried out with reference to the research gaps identified in this paper.…”

Suicide in preadolescents: Who is at risk?

“…Such interventions are aimed at educating the public, medical care providers, schoolteachers, school counselors, youth service center personnel, and other entities that deal with children and adolescents [ 29 ]. Early identifi cation of children at risk by such programs may impact rates of suicide in children, as improved detection of childhood depression may be one of the best ways to reduce child suicide [ 30 ].…”

Bereaved by Suicide

“…However, human behaviour such as grieving is a dynamic process, and, often attempts to model human behaviour fails because most models fail to account for temporal changes and dynamics in behaviour [34]. For example, some high school and community based studies suggest that grief due to suicide is too complex to fit the Kubler-Ross model [35,36].…”