Ultra-brief crisis interpersonal psychotherapy based intervention for suicidal children and adolescents

Abstract

Suicidal behaviors in adolescence are a major public health concern. The dramatic rise in self-injurious behaviors among adolescents has led to an overwhelming increase in the number of those presenting to the emergency rooms. The intervention described below was constructed on the basis of brief and focused interventions that were found to be effective among suicidal adults using an adaptation of interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents. The intervention has four main objectives: first, a focused treatment for reducing suicide risk; second, a short and immediate response; third, building a treatment plan based on understanding the emotional distress and interpersonal aspects underlying suicidal behavior; and lastly, to generate hope among adolescents and their parents. The intervention includes intensive five weekly sessions, followed by 3 mo of email follow-up.

Contribution of Risk and Resilience Factors to Suicidality among Mental Health-Help-Seeking Adolescent Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…For example, high-risk youth with low emotional regulation capabilities might benefit from intervention of dialectical behavior therapy that specifically address emotion regulation [50]. In addition, interventions aimed at enhancing resilience factors can be incorporated in focused interventions targeting suicide risk, which are common in Israel [51,52].…”

Implicit identification with death detects and predicts short‐term suicide risk among adolescents discharged from the emergency room

“…All of the following measures used in this study are Hebrew versions of the original questionnaires, used in previous research among Hebrew‐speaking adolescents (Cohen et al, 2019; Haruvi Catalan et al, 2020; Klomek et al, 2021; Malkosh‐Tshopp et al, 2020).…”