The objective of the study was to examine the hypothesis that some forms of suicidal behavior among adolescents are related to helplessness and depression, whereas others are related to anger and impulsivity. Sixty-five adolescents were studied. Thirty-three had borderline personality disorder (BPD), of whom 17 had made a recent suicide attempt. Thirty-two had major depressive disorder (MDD), o...

The management and treatment of patients with suicidal behavior is one of the most challenging tasks for health-care professionals. Patients with affective disorders are at high risk for suicidal behavior, therefore, should be a target for prevention. Numerous international studies of lithium use have documented anti-suicidal effects since the 1970s. Despite the unambiguous evidence of lithium'...

This study examined ethnic differences in adolescent nonfatal suicidal behaviors as well as age and gender variation both across and within ethnic groups. Using a large (n = 14, 346) sample of adolescents in Grades 7 through 12, African Americans reported relatively high rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts and Southeast Asians reported high rates of suicidal thoughts. Hispanic Americans, Eu...

The present study examines the prevalence of death thoughts and suicidality in HIV infection. Subjects (n = 246) were examined for psychiatric morbidity and suicidality. Compared to high risk HIV seronegatives, HIV seropositives (HIV +) had significantly increased frequency and severity of both suicidal ideation and death thoughts. Two-thirds of seropositives had suicidal ideation at some point...

Cognitive Therapy for Suicidal Patients: Scientific and Clinical Applications is a major contribution to the literature on empirically based treatment of suicidal people. The book is a treatment manual for one of the few treatments that have been shown to reduce suicidal behavior. The authors, Amy Wenzel, Greg Brown, and Aaron Beck, describe in detail their treatment, which has been shown in a ...

Social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight increase suicidal ideation in adolescents, but no study to date has examined their relative significance in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Generalized estimating equations and path analyses were used to measure the significance and mediation of these variables in the suicidal ideation of 721 AI/ANs and 12,107 White adolesce...

BACKGROUND To investigate whether schizophrenia patients with both suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm have earlier age of onset of psychotic and depressive symptoms and higher levels of clinical symptoms compared to patients with only suicide attempts or without suicide attempt. METHODS Using a cross-sectional design, 251 patients (18-61 years old, 58% men) with schizophrenia treated...

Inspite of the fact that the study of suicidal behaviour has been the subject of an ever increasing body of li terature, re catch in the field of communication of suicidal intent has somehow not received due attention. Quite often pntient 's suicidal ideas may remain unnoticed during clinical interview in an overcrowded psychiatric outpatient and at times this inadvertent neglect might result i...

OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of suicidal behaviour within clinical trials of antidepressants in adults. DESIGN Meta-analysis of 372 double blind randomised placebo controlled trials. SETTING Drug development programmes for any indication in adults. PARTICIPANTS 99 231 adults assigned to antidepressants or placebo. Median age was 42 and 63.1% were women. Indications for treatment were maj...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the mental health, substance use, educational, and occupational outcomes of adolescents who self harm in a general population sample, and to examine whether these outcomes differ according to self reported suicidal intent. DESIGN Population based birth cohort study. SETTING Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a UK birth cohort of children born...