Clinical and Psychosocial Characteristics of Young Children With Suicidal Ideation, Behaviors, and Nonsuicidal Self-Injurious Behaviors

Based on previous findings that suicidal ideation (SI) and behavior (SB) arose in depressed preschoolers and showed stability into school age, we sought to investigate whether unique clinical and psychosocial correlates of SI/SB and nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors (NSSI) could be identified in young children recuited into a depression treatment study and healthy controls.

https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(18)31886-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joan Luby, Diana Whalen, Rebecca Tillman, Deanna Barch Tags: New research Source Type: research