Suicide Risk Assessment, Management and Prevention in Adolescents
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 3490
Special Issue Editors
Interests: suicidilogoy; depression; new technologies; ecological momentary assessment; creative writing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Suicidal behaviour is a major health problem worldwide. This problem affects young people notably, which makes the number of years of potential life lost (YPLL) due to suicide very high. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the YPLL due to suicide exceeded those due to COVID-19 in 2020. It is precisely after the pandemic that there has been an increasing concern about suicidal behaviour in adolescents, which is also related to an increase in non-suicidal self-injury in this population. Many social, psychological and biological factors influence this phenomenon, posing a major scientific, social and clinical challenge. In this Special Issue, we will focus on suicidal behaviour in the adolescent population from the points of view of risk assessment, management and prevention. We welcome all submissions related to this topic, from various perspectives and disciplines, such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social psychology, neuroscience or developmental science.
Dr. Alejandro Porras-Segovia
Dr. Inmaculada Peñuelas-Calvo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- suicide
- suicide attempt
- suicide ideation
- child and adolescent psychiatry
- self-harm
- non-suicidal self-injury
- assessment
- prevention
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Behaviour in Self-Declared LGBTQ+ Adolescents
Author: Sánchez-Teruel
Highlights: * Adolescents belonging to sexual minorities show high suicidal vulnerability
* Feeling trapped (entrapment) appears to be a more predictive risk variable for suicide attempts in this group than anxiety and depression.
* Among others, parental style characterised by supportive and affectionate expression, availability and fluency in communication, is a highly predictive protective factor for resilience to suicide attempts.