OBJECTIVE Conducting psychotherapy with chronically suicidal patients challenges clinical decision making and emotional self-management in both trainees and seasoned practitioners. Educators and trainees have noted the need for additional teaching materials in these areas. This article is intended to address these needs. METHODS We review the literature on evidence-based, suicide-oriented psy...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a distressing and often debilitating disorder characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both that are time-consuming and cause impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. There are many published studies reporting higher risk of suicidality in OCD patients, as well as studies describing increased risk of suicidality in OCD patient...

BACKGROUND Spiritual well-being has been lauded to exert a protective effect against suicidal behavior. This study examines the characteristics of spiritual functioning and their association with a self-reported history of suicidal thoughts and behavior in a sample of Veterans being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS The sample includes 472 Veterans admitted to a PTSD ...

We examined the prevalence, correlates, and psychiatric comorbidities of community-dwelling subjects with problematic Internet use (PIU). In an epidemiological survey of mental disorders among Korean adults conducted in 2006, 6510 subjects (aged 18-64 years) completed the Korean version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV psychiatric disorders; Diagnostic Interview Sc...

This study intended to determine whether former and current ADHD symptomatology is associated with suicidal ideation in a non-clinical sample of 18 year old males. We performed a cross sectional descriptive study of 3280 men during the examination for military service. The investigation included a screening for substance abuse, past (WURS) and current (ADHD symptom checklist) ADHD symptomatolog...

Abstract Background Depression is common in women, childhood sexual abuse and its related stigma our culture are expected to increase the severity of depression, it may be a strong risk factor for presence suicidal ideations women. This study aimed look at relationship history depression depressed Methods A consecutive sample 160 women was enrolled this study. The structured clinical interview ...

Abstract: A previous study developed and validated a multi-item instrument for the assessment of violent ideations, “Violent Ideations Scale” (VIS). However, final 12-item scale contained no items relating to sexual violence was thus lacking an important dimension violence. The current explores expansion original VIS include ideations investigates psychometric properties this new version: Viole...

Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of borderline personality disorder (BPD) characteristics as a predictor of suicidal in patients with bipolar disorder. Method:  This research was a cross-sectional study and the people who were selected were 50 (25 women, 25 men) who were hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti hospital. They had referred to the psychiatrists an...

BACKGROUND Primary care in South Korea has no effective screening system to identify high-risk suicide patients despite to the possibility of hidden patients. The present study examined the prevalence of suicidal ideation and depression among primary care patients and investigated rates of recognition and management strategies of physicians as they encountering patients with suicidal ideation a...