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Crisis Concept Re-loaded?—The Recently Described Suicide-Specific Syndromes May Help to Better Understand Suicidal Behavior and Assess Imminent Suicide Risk More Effectively
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 12 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Background: Despite of the decreasing suicide rates in many countries, suicide is still a major public health concern worldwide. Traditional suicide risk factors have limited clinical predictive value, as they provide little reliable information on the acute psychological processes leading to suicide.Aims: The aim of this analysis is to describe and compare the recently introduced two suicide-specific syndromes [Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD) and Suicidal Crisis Syndrome (SCS)] with the classic psychological features of pre-suicidal crisis and also to assess the clinical utility of the new suicide prediction scales in contrast to classical risk factors.Method: Conceptual analysis.Results: Suicide-specific syndromes are not novel in terms of symptomatology or dynamics of symptom onset, but in their use of well-defined diagnostic criteria. In addition to symptomatic classification, they also provide an opportunity to objectively measure the current pre-suicidal emotional and mental state by validated tools.Limitations: Future studies need to be completed to prove the reliability and predictive validity of suicide-specific diagnostic categories and the related suicide risk assessment tools.Conclusion: Clinical use of suicide-specific syndromes is suggested. This transdiagnostic approach not only enables a more accurate and objective assessment of imminent suicide risk, but also facilitates research in neuroscience, which represent a major step forward in managing and complex understanding of suicidal behavior.
- Subjects :
- Predictive validity
medicine.medical_specialty
Future studies
genetic structures
lcsh:RC435-571
Suicide prevention
Objective assessment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
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medicine
suicide prediction
Conceptual Analysis
Symptom onset
Suicide Risk
suicide risk factors
Psychiatry
acute suicidal affective disturbance
Public health
suicide-specific syndromes
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Suicidal behavior
Psychology
suicidal crisis syndrome
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
suicide prevention
Clinical psychology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16640640
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7ae1525304161bacdd4dcbda72e11a5