The purpose of this chapter is to focus on the mood states on a adolescent such as depression, anger, and anxiety. Suicidal behavior is the end result of a number of cognitive, behavioral, and ...emotional factors. Although depression is most commonly thought of as the primary emotion that accompanies suicidal behavior, not all adolescent suicide attempters are depressed, and not all depressed adolescents attempt suicide. Other emotional states may be equally important in understanding a suicide attempt. Anger, for example, has been shown to be common in many adolescents who attempt suicide, and anxiety has been evident in adolescents who complete suicide. This chapter reviews depressed mood, anger, and anxiety as potentially important emotional correlates of adolescent suicide attempts. Although emotional states are sometimes investigated in isolation when researchers study adolescent suicidality, several emotions are usually examined within one investigation. The relation of each of these emotional states to adolescent suicidal behavior is often analyzed in isolation from other relevant emotional states.
To investigate the visual-memory ability of children referred for psychological evaluations of academic and/or behavior problems, 135 children were administered the Bender-Gestalt and then asked to ...reproduce as many designs from memory as they could. Analysis indicated that the number of designs recalled increased with age and Performance IQ but not Full Scale IQ. Results were discussed in terms of the importance of considering developmental level when evaluating children and the establishment of rough cut-off scores on recall of the Bender-Gestalt designs.
Forty-three emotionally disturbed children, ranging in age from 8 years, 3 months, to 15 years, 6 months, were divided into two groups, impulsive and reflective, on the basis of their cognitive style ...as measured by the Matching Familiar Figures Test and administered the Wechsler Intellectual Scale for Children-Revised. Reflective children scored significantly higher than the impulsive children on Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, Full Scale IQ, and Kaufman's Perceptual Organization factor. The two groups did not differ significantly on the Freedom from Distractibility or Verbal Comprehension factors. Results were discussed in terms of their relationship to previous findings, with particular attention to factor analytic research with behavior problem children that did not find a Freedom from Distractibility factor and could account for the present findings.
In order to investigate the dimensionality of the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale (ANS-IE), the responses of 120 undergraduate psychology majors were subjected to one principal ...components factor analysis using Kaiser's varimax criterion, Five meaningful factors emerged which accounted or 80.6% of the total variance. Results were discussed in terms of their similarity to other factor analyses using the children's version of this scale and to a factor analysis of the ANS-IE (chandler & Dugovics, 1977) which used a modified response format.
Our study includes 12 patients. Of these, six had transitional cell carcinoma, three patients with stones and three patients with blood clots. With the use of computed tomography we were able to ...arrive at a reasonable staging and diagnosis of the filling defects. Computed tomography is not sufficiently sensitive to recognize microscopic invasion. Reactive fibrosis and postobstructive inflammatory changes can mimic tumor invasion on computed tomography, and in such cases staging will not be accurate.
This third and last category of youth suicide prevention efforts includes indicated interventions and treatments that target those who have already shown signs of suicidality. Such efforts seek ...essentially to reduce and prevent subsequent suicidal ideation and suicide attempts and prevent suicide completion. The interventions and treatments described in this chapter differ widely in the groups they target, the methods they use, and the settings in which they have been implemented.
Research Agenda for Youth Suicide Prevention Hendin, Herbert; Brent, David A.; Cornelius, Jack R. ...
Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders,
08/2005
Book Chapter
This chapter consists of a summary of what is currently known, what is currently not known and what further research is needed on the subject of youth suicide, how it can be prevented, and how the ...problems associated with suicidal behavior can be treated.
Targeted Youth Suicide Prevention Programs Hendin, Herbert; Brent, David A.; Cornelius, Jack R. ...
Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders,
08/2005
Book Chapter
In this chapter we review examples of selective suicide prevention programs that have been developed for youth identified or presumed to be at increased risk for suicidal behavior. Although the youth ...targeted by such programs are considered to be particularly vulnerable to suicide, in most cases they have not yet exhibited specific signs of suicidality. Discussed here are programs for three specific groups, each of which has shown elevated rates of suicidal behavior: Native American youth, youth with recent exposure to a suicide in the school or community, and youth who have access to firearms in the home. While there has been considerable research suggesting that adolescents and young adults in these groups are at greater risk for suicide, relatively few intervention programs for these populations have been developed to date.
