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Dialectical Behavior Therapy for a College Population: Applications at Sarah Lawrence College and beyond
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Engle, Erin; Gadischkie, Stephen; Roy, Nance; Nunziato, Dina – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2013
Trends in college mental health literature suggest many college and university counseling centers are facing increased demands for services. Moreover, survey data suggest that counseling center directors and staff perceive increases in serious psychopathology, suicidality, and nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior, along with other typical student…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Health Services, Self Destructive Behavior, Behavior Modification
Differentiating Adolescent Self-Injury from Adolescent Depression: Possible Implications for Borderline Personality Development
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Crowell, Sheila E.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Hsiao, Ray C.; Vasilev, Christina A.; Yaptangco, Mona; Linehan, Marsha M.; McCauley, Elizabeth – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
Self-inflicted injury (SII) in adolescence marks heightened risk for suicide attempts, completed suicide, and adult psychopathology. Although several studies have revealed elevated rates of depression among adolescents who self injure, no one has compared adolescent self injury with adolescent depression on biological, self-, and informant-report…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Personality Problems, Females, Injuries
Young People's Risk of Suicide Attempts after Contact with a Psychiatric Department--A Nested Case-Control Design Using Danish Register Data
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Christiansen, Erik; Larsen, Kim Juul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: There seems to be an increased risk of children and adolescents committing or attempting suicide after contact with a psychiatric department. Children and adolescents living in families with low socio-economic status (SES) might have an especially increased suicide attempt risk. Methods: A complete extraction of Danish register data…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Suicide, Psychopathology, Personality Traits
Self-Concept of a College Suicide
Alfert, Elizabeth – J Coll Stud Personnel, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Personality Problems
Hope and Self-Destruction: The Ratio of External Threat to Feelings of Personal Competence on the Underlying Continuum of Self-Destructive Behavior.
Henderson, James T. – 1976
This study assumes that all suicidal and self-destructive behavior can be placed on a continuum from hopeful (H) to hopeless (S). The author attempts to show that there is an underlying continuum of hope corresponding to what we know about the statistics of suicidal behavior. He employs two operational hypotheses as tests of his ideas: (1) a group…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delay of Gratification, Emotional Adjustment, Locus of Control
Dysphoric Adolescents as Young Adults: A Prospective Study of the Psychological Sequelae of Depressed Mood in Adolescence.
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Gjerde, Per F.; Westenberg, P. Michiel – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Evaluated the longitudinal implications of age-18 dysphoric mood in 23-year olds using a multidata, multi informant design. Findings indicated that adolescent dysphoric mood was an important predictor of psychological distress in young adults, especially in young adult women, for whom the prospective correlations of adolescent dysphoria were more…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Music Preference, Depression, Suicidal Preoccupation, and Personality: Comment on Stack and Gundlach's Papers.
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Lester, David; Whipple, Melissa – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1996
In a sample of students (n=93), preference for country and western music was not associated with depression or suicidal preoccupation as has been suggested by Stack and Gundlach. However, preference for heavy metal music was associated with prior suicidal ideation. Stronger associations were found between music preferences and measures of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Behavior Disorders, Counseling
Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide and Suicidal Behavior: Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders, Family Environmental Factors, and Life Stress.
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Brent, David A. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1995
Reviews psychopathologic risk factors for adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior, namely, affective, disruptive, substance abuse, psychotic, and personality disorders. Discusses interaction of psychopathology with age and gender. Reviews role of family environmental risk factors and stress events in suicide and suicidal behavior, both alone and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Death