Sentences with phrase «adolescents at high risk for suicide»

Dr. Kerr also has worked on large studies of hospitalized suicidal adolescents to compare the predictive validity of assessment instruments and dimensions of suicidal thinking; to identify subgroups of adolescents at high risk for suicide attempt; and to understand the effects of a social support intervention on suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

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While the «high» risk group is easily identified by behaviour such as alcohol and drug use, parents and teachers are probably not aware of that adolescents in the «invisible» risk group are at risk», says Vladimir Carli, at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill - Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, first author of the study.

These findings are supported by studies on abused children and adolescents at high risk for suicidal behaviors.16, 42 The immediacy of the stress and the pain of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or witnessing domestic violence are experiences not easily escaped by children and adolescents, which may make suicide appear to be the only solution.

According to the results of this national claims - based analysis, adolescents and young adults are at high risk for repeated self - harm and suicide in the first year after self - harm.

Similar to findings from SASH, childhood sexual abuse emerged as a particularly robust risk factor for suicide attempts in younger participants in the WMHS cross-national analysis, with a 10.9 times higher OR of suicide attempts in children, a 6.1 times higher likelihood in adolescents and a 2.9-fold risk in young adults who were exposed.20 This is in keeping with the Enns hypothesis that sexual abuse results in suicidal behaviour at a younger age.21 Consistent with other studies, childhood physical and sexual abuse, in particular, emerged as risk factors for the emergence and persistence of suicidal behaviour, especially in adolescence.

Limited research indicates that adolescent suicide does appear to increase due to media coverage; however, this is most likely to occur only with adolescents who are already at higher risk for suicide.

These adolescents have a higher incidence of medical illness and social adjustment challenges than those without depressive illness and are at risk for suicide and recurrent depressive episodes.