A Primer for Research on Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

01 January 2024 - 2 mins read time
Tags: Mental Health

The basics—terms, definitions, and rates:

  • Suicide among Youth: Epidemiology, (Potential) Etiology, and Treatment [link]
  • Self-Injury [link]
  • Describing and Measuring the Pathway to Suicide Attempts: A Preliminary Study [link]
  • Interventions for Suicide and Self-Injury: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Across Nearly 50 Years of Research [link]
  • Coming to terms with the terms of risk [link]

How to respectfully talk about suicide:

  • Words matter. Learning how to talk about suicide in a hopeful, respectful way has the power to save lives. [link]
  • Language matters: how should we talk about suicide? [link]

Is talking about suicide / suicide risk assessment iatrogenic?

  • On the Iatrogenic Risk of Assessing Suicidality: A Meta-Analysis [link]
  • The benefits and risks of asking research participants about suicide: A meta- analysis of the impact of exposure to suicide-related content [link]
  • Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects [link]

Why do people kill themselves?

  • Advancing the Understanding of Suicide: The Need for Formal Theory and Rigorous Descriptive Research [link]

Suicide, self-harm, and identity:

  • Racism and Poverty are Barriers to the Treatment of Youth Mental Health Concerns [link]
  • Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future [link]

Studying suicide “in the wild” with Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) studies:

  • Acceptability and feasibility of EMA with augmentation of passive sensor data in young adults at high risk for suicide [link]

Working with self-reported data:

  • Feelings or Words? Understanding the Content in Self-Report Ratings of Experienced Emotion [link]
  • The Ordinal Nature of Emotions [link]

Machine Learning in context:

  • Implementing Machine Learning Models for Suicide Risk Prediction in Clinical Practice: Focus Group Study With Hospital Providers [link]
  • Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Suicide as a Complex Dynamical System [link]
  • Advancing the Network Theory of Mental Disorders: A Computational Model of Panic Disorder [link]
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Performance of Prediction Models for Death by Suicide After Mental Health Visits [link]

Suicide prevention and treatment:

  • Psychological Approaches to Suicide Treatment and Prevention [link]
  • Addressing the treatment gap: A key challenge for extending evidence-based psychosocial interventions [link]