Summary:“There was nothing which could stop me!” Case report of an imitation suicide by a 14-yearold girlWe present the case of a 14-yearold girl who imitated the railway suicide of her boyfriend as a problem-solving strategy. Theories about the ...
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) - A Pilot Study on the Therapy of Suicidal, Parasuicidal, and Self-injurious Behaviour in Female Patients with a Borderline DisorderSummary:Objectives: In Germany suicide ranks as the second leading ...
Non-suicidal self-injury as autonomous diagnosis – implications for research and clinic of the DSM-5 proposal to establish the diagnosis of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in adolescentsIn both classificatory systems DSM-IV and ICD-10 self-injury is a symptom ...
Suicide in children and adolescents – a 13-year study with 78 casesObjective: Updated and regional data about the circumstances of death and the psychosocial backgrounds of suicides can be helpful for improving suicide-preventive strategies in childhood ...
Objective: Suicide attempts are important predictors of completed suicide. Adolescents admitted to the emergency room of a large university hospital in Bern after a suicide attempt during the years 2004–2010 were prospectively assessed for methods of ...
Dialectical-behavioral outpatient therapy for adolescents with impulsive and self-harming behaviorAbstract. A slightly modified version of the Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) for impulsive ...
Assessment and therapy of suicidality in adolescence: the most important recommendations of the current guidelineAbstract. Due to the clinical relevance of suicidal risks, suicide attempts, and suicides in ...
Psychotherapeutic interventions for suicidal adolescents – a systematic review of the current literatureAbstract. Although suicidal thoughts and behaviors are common in adolescents, the German guidelines for ...
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and Suicidality in AdolescenceAbstract. Both Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and suicidality (such as suicidal ideation, suicide attempts) start in adolescence. The last years have seen an increasing differentiation ...
Low-threshold trauma-focused group intervention for traumatised adolescents with a migration background: The influence of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour and suicidalityAbstract. In order to meet the high ...
Selektive Serotonin-Wiederaufnahmehemmer (SSRI) gehören weltweit zu den am häufigsten verordneten Psychopharmaka. Kurz nach ihrer Einführung erschienen erste Berichte, welche die Einnahme von SSRI in den Zusammenhang mit einer erhöhten Suizidgefahr ...
Poisoning is a frequent disease in an emergency division. During four years we observed patients with poisoning related to there reason of intoxication, the degree of severity, age group and sex, and tried to make conclusions about lethal outcome on ...
Psychiatric emergencies are stressful and time-consuming for physicians. Comprehensive diagnostic assessment is often not feasible in psychiatric emergency situations. Primary interventions target symptoms and syndromes. Treatments for psychiatric ...
Suicidality is a frequently observed but unfortunately frequently overlooked phenomenon. Every year over 1000 persons in Switzerland commit suicide; the number of attempted suicides is much higher. If suicidality is recognized promptly, appropriately ...
Antidepressants and Suicidality: A Contradiction?Abstract. In 2004, the European and American authorities released a black-box warning on antidepressants indicating an association with an ...
Scale for Suicidal Experience and Behavior (SSEV): Factor Structure and Psychometric PropertiesAbstract. Suicide ideation and suicide behavior occur commonly in clinical contexts. While various instruments for the assessment of suicidality have ...
Suicidality in childhood and adolescence - Introduction to the special issueAbstract. Suicide in adolescence is an issue that concerns not only child and adolescent psychiatrists, but physicians in other fields as well. Avoidable mistakes, such as ...
Cybersuicide or Werther-Effect online: Suicide chatrooms or forums in the World Wide WebAbstract. Advice in the mass media is of utmost importance in suicide prevention with regard to copying suicide methods. The internet, and the opportunities it ...
Adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Parasuicidal symptoms and psychiatric disordersAbstract. In this study 163 of 537 consecutively admitted adolescent psychiatric inpatients were found to have parasuicidal symptoms at admission, half of which consisted ...