Citation

Brent DA. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2016; 46(Suppl 1): S39-S47.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12257

PMID

27094110

Abstract

In this commentary, the effects of four family-based preventive interventions designed to augment parent and child resilience, originally designed to prevent mental health and substance abuse, on suicide ideation and attempts are reviewed. Three of the preventive interventions showed a beneficial effect either on child suicide ideation or attempts, and one found a beneficial effect on parental suicidal ideation. The duration of effects in two of these studies was well longer than a decade. These studies suggest that interventions to augment family and child resiliency originally designed to prevent mental health and substance abuse disorders can also have beneficial, often long-term, effects on suicidal ideation and behavior.

© 2016 The American Association of Suicidology.

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