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Cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attempts

TLDR
There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
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A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior.

TLDR
Most adolescents engaged in SMB for automatic reinforcement, although a sizable portion endorsed social reinforcement functions as well, and the results supported the structural validity and reliability of the hypothesized functional model of SMB.
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Suicide and suicidal behavior.

TLDR
Examination of prevalence of, trends in, and risk and protective factors for suicidal behavior in the United States and cross-nationally revealed significant cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behavior but consistency in age of onset, transition probabilities, and key risk factors.
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Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview: development, reliability, and validity in an adolescent sample.

TLDR
The authors concluded that the SITBI uniformly and comprehensively assesses a wide range of self-injury-related constructs and provides a new instrument that can be administered with relative ease in both research and clinical settings.
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Prevalence, correlates, and treatment of lifetime suicidal behavior among adolescents: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement.

TLDR
Differences suggest that distinct prediction and prevention strategies are needed for ideation, plans among ideators, planned attempts, and unplanned attempts.
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Risk Factors for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research

TLDR
A meta-analysis of studies that have attempted to longitudinally predict a specific STB-related outcome suggests the need for a shift in focus from risk factors to machine learning-based risk algorithms.
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Contextual features and behavioral functions of self-mutilation among adolescents.

TLDR
Considering the functions of SMB clarified the relations between SMB and other clinical constructs reported in previous studies such as suicide attempts, posttraumatic stress, and social concerns and has direct implications for the assessment and treatment ofSMB.
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Why Do People Hurt Themselves?

  • M. Nock
  • Psychology
    Current directions in psychological science
  • 1 April 2009
TLDR
A theoretical model of the development and maintenance of NSSI is presented, which synthesizes research from several different areas of the literature and points toward several lines of research needed to further advance the understanding of why people hurt themselves.
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Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: Diagnostic correlates and relation to suicide attempts

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Trends in suicide ideation, plans, gestures, and attempts in the United States, 1990-1992 to 2001-2003.

TLDR
Despite a dramatic increase in treatment, no significant decrease occurred in suicidal thoughts, plans, gestures, or attempts in the United States during the 1990s.
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