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New Approaches to Understanding, Researching, Predicting, and Preventing Suicide
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New Approaches to Understanding, Researching, Predicting, and Preventing Suicide

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 8474

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Carmine Tomasetti

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1. Department of Mental Health, Psychiatric Service of Diagnosis and Treatment, Hospital “Maria SS dello Splendore”, ASL 4 Teramo, Italy
2. Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Science and Odontostomatology, School of Medicine 'Federico II' Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; neuropsychopharmacology; neuropsychobiology; clinical pharmacology; neuroscience; translational pchiatry
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Dr. Domenico De Berardis

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1. National Health Service, Department of Mental Health, Psychiatric Service of Diagnosis and Treatment, Hospital “G. Mazzini”, ASL 4 Teramo, Italy
2. Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Science, Chair of Psychiatry, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy
Interests: bipolar disorder; alexithymia; psychosis; mood disorders; clinical pharmacology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With traditional approaches, we have made limited progress in understanding suicidality. For example, recent meta-analyses indicate that traditional interventions produce (at best) small decreases in suicidality, traditional risk factors produce (at best) prediction of suicidality that marginally exceeds random guessing, and traditional approaches to understanding neural contributions to suicidality produce (at best) classification of suicidal individuals that is only slightly better than random chance. In this Special Issue, we aim to highlight new approaches to understanding, researching, predicting, and preventing suicidality. We place special emphasis on fundamentally new approaches that have the potential to produce major improvements in the near future. That is, this special issue is not focused on potential incremental advances; it is focused on potential paradigm shifts.

Dr. Carmine Tomasetti
Dr. Domenico De Berardis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • suicide
  • suicide theory
  • suicide prediction
  • suicide interventions
  • innovation
  • paradigm shift

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Untangling the Emotional Intelligence-Suicidal Ideation Connection: The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Adolescents
by Cirenia Quintana-Orts, Sergio Mérida-López, Lourdes Rey, Félix Neto and Natalio Extremera
J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(10), 3116; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103116 - 26 Sep 2020
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Though contemporary scientific literature addressing the links between emotional intelligence (EI) and suicidal ideation in adolescents is scarce, one of the potential proposed pathways through which EI may reduce the risk of suicidal ideation involves its relationship with the use of adaptive coping [...] Read more.
Though contemporary scientific literature addressing the links between emotional intelligence (EI) and suicidal ideation in adolescents is scarce, one of the potential proposed pathways through which EI may reduce the risk of suicidal ideation involves its relationship with the use of adaptive coping strategies. The aim of this research is to provide support for an empirical pathway that proposes that the effects of EI on suicide risk may follow an indirect pathway, involving maladaptive and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, using both cross-sectional and prospective design in two independent studies with Spanish adolescents. The sample of Study 1 consisted of 1824 students (52.4% female; mean age 14.55 years). In Study 2, 796 adolescents (54.4% female; mean age 13.76 years) filled out the measures twice, four months later. The results confirmed a positive association between EI and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and a negative link with suicidal ideation. As expected, the results showed that both cross-sectionally (Study 1) and prospectively (Study 2) EI predicted lower suicidal ideation. Bootstrap mediation analysis indicated that only adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies partially mediated the link between EI and suicidal ideation both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Together, those adolescents who showed higher EI were more likely to report more adaptive cognitive emotion regulation, which in turn predicted lower levels of suicidal ideation. Our findings suggest possible avenues for prevention and intervention efforts aimed at boosting emotional abilities and developing adaptive coping strategies among adolescents who are at elevated suicide risk. Full article
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Family and School Contexts as Predictors of Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents: The Role of Depression and Anxiety
by Nicolás Ruiz-Robledillo, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, Natalia Albaladejo-Blázquez and Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo
J. Clin. Med. 2019, 8(12), 2066; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8122066 - 24 Nov 2019
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Suicide is the highest external cause of death in the majority of developed countries. In adolescents, the prevalence of suicide has increased significantly in recent years, becoming a serious public health concern. The main aim of the present study is to characterize suicidal [...] Read more.
Suicide is the highest external cause of death in the majority of developed countries. In adolescents, the prevalence of suicide has increased significantly in recent years, becoming a serious public health concern. The main aim of the present study is to characterize suicidal behavior, and to evaluate the relationship between family and school contexts and suicidal behavior through the possible mediating effects of depression and anxiety. The design of the study is cross-sectional. The sample was composed of 1386 Spanish adolescents from 14 high-schools. Suicidal behavior, anxiety, depression, family function, and school climate were evaluated through self-reported questionnaires. The results obtained show a significant association between adaptive family function and a positive school climate with low levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidal behavior. Mediation analyses revealed a significant full mediating effect of depression on family function and school climate with suicidal behavior. No significant mediating effects were found for anxiety. The results obtained underline the importance of family and school as protective factors for the prevention of suicidal behavior in adolescents, through the main mediating role of depression. Future studies should evaluate the mechanisms underlying the effects of family function and school climate on depression, and therefore, on suicidal behavior in adolescents. Full article
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