PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Randomized Controlled Trial, Suicidal Ideation, Mental Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3690
• Professor: Benjamin Gottlieb

Document Summary

Title: youth-nominated support team for suicidal adolescents (version 1): a randomized controlled trial. Examine the ef cacy of the youth-nominated support team-version 1 which was designed to supplement routine care for suicidal adolescents following psychiatric hospitalization, a period of high risk for suicidal incidents. Indicated - adolescents were psychiatrically hospitalized for suicide ideation/intent. Secondary because they already have an established disorder of suicide ideation, and this program attempts to nip it in the bud so that they prevent further attempts and successful suicide. Risk = being adolescent, being suicidal, just getting out of psychiatric hospitalization, parental psychiatric disorder and dysfunction. Protective = connectedness with teachers and school and supportive relationships with unrelated adults. Measures of data collection (what is measured, # of times, and how) The suicide ideation questionnaire-junior assesses the frequency of suicidal thoughts. The spectrum of suicide behaviour scale rates history of suicidally. The youth self-report internalizing scale and the reynolds adolescent depression.