Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. PENNSYLVANIA

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After a murder/suicide at the Red Lion Junior High School in Red Lion, Pennsylvania (the second critical incident in 2 years for that school district), a crisis response team provided critical incident stress management services, response coordination & ongoing support to the students, school population & community at large. The authors were part of this […]

The authors illustrate the tension & explore the relationship between research design & ethics, especially the interaction between the two, in the NIMH-funded PROSPECT study. (7 refs)

In this study the authors sought to determine the effects of psychiatric disorders on attempted suicide among adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD). Age of onset for psychiatric disorders, age of first suicide attempt, & the relationship of psychiatric disorder with attempted suicide were investigated in a sample of 503 adolescents with DSM-IV defined SUD. […]

Among 440 psychiatric outpatients with current suicidal ideation, the authors examined the empirical distinction between the “plans” vs. “desire” dimensions of suicidality, focusing for conceptual & empirical reasons on a worst-point assessment strategy. Among the current ideators included in this study, the worst-point “plans” dimension was the only predictor significantly related to both of 2 […]

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The present study examined recent suicide attempters with & without psychotic disorders in order to understand factors that contribute to suicide ideation during & following the suicide attempt. Patients with psychotic disorders endorsed higher levels of suicide ideation than patients without psychotic disorders. During the follow-up period, patients with psychotic disorders subsequently attempted suicide at […]

The authors evaluated whether the risk of DSM-III major depressive disorder (MDD) is uniform across the 6 months after adolescent exposure to a friend’s suicide, & examined potential moderating or mediating processes that may influence the risk of new-onset MDD. 1-month incidence rates of MDD were compared between 129 adolescents who were exposed to a […]

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Viewing borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a “high risk” disorder, the authors investigated whether childhood abuse was a risk factor for adult suicidal behavior or if it was related to other known risk factors for suicide in BPD. They found that occurrence & severity of childhood sexual abuse, but not physical abuse, predicted adult suicidal […]

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how child death review teams can be used to prevent future deaths through retrospective, multiagency case analysis & recommendations for educational programs & policy change. A listing was compiled of all deaths of persons 21 years & younger in Philadephia for 1995, & data were collected on […]

A 9-year retrospective review of all admissions to the Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh Burn Center from 1987 to 1995 found 11 out of 1135 patients to have self-inflicted burns. 10 of these patients had a psychiatric diagnosis prior to injury. The other patient was diagnosed with major depression during her hospitalization. 2 of the 11 […]

This article is a biography of Joey Coyle, the Irish-American who found over $1,000,000 dollars in Philadelphia & died by suicide 10 years after being acquitted of criminal charges. Details about his drug addiction, public support during his trial, & contract with Disney to portray his story are included. His drug-induced paranoia is cited as […]

This study assessed mental & substance use disorders as potential risk factors for attempted suicide among adolescents with alcohol use disorders. The purpose of the study was to determine which of the disorders acted as predictors for attempted suicide among this population. Results show that bipolar disorder & cocaine use disorders were found to be […]

This study examined gender differences of an age & race-matched group of bipolar disorder (BPO) patients with comorbid alcohol dependence (AD) to a group of BPO patients without comorbid AD. The results revealed that female bipolar alcoholic patients were more likely to report depressive symptoms. Female bipolar alcoholics differed from female non-alcoholic bipolar patients on […]

In the present study, the researchers examined factors related to depression, hopelessness, & suicidality in gay, lesbian, & bisexual adolescents, compared with demographically similar heterosexual adolescents. Sexual minority adolescents reported greater depression, hopelessness, & past & present suicidality than did heterosexual adolescents. However, when controlling for other psychosocial predictors of present distress, significant differences between […]

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was administered to 168 outpatients diagnosed with recurrent-episode, major-depression disorders & 99 out-patients diagnosed with dysthymic disorders. The mean ratings of 18 BDI items were comparable in both groups; the mean total-BDI score & mean number of BDI items rated were higher for the major depressive disorders than for the […]

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The relatives of 58 adolescent suicide probands & 55 similar controls were assessed for Axis I & II psychiatric disorders, lifetime history of aggression & suicidal behavior using family study & family history methods. It was found that liability to suicidal behavior might be familially transmitted as a trait independent of psychiatric disorders. The transmitted […]

The presence, type, number & method of storage of firearms in the home were compared between 67 teen suicide victims & 67 living community controls. Even after adjusting for differences in rates of psychiatric disorders between the 2 groups, the association between suicide & both any gun & handguns in the home were both highly […]

In this study, the clinical profile of 107 patients diagnosed at intake with both major depression & alcohol dependence was compared to that of 497 nondepressed alcoholics & 5,625 nonalcoholic patients with major depression. Conclusion: The clinical profile of depressed alcoholics suggests that they suffer an additive or synergistic effect of two separate disorders, resulting […]