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Oct 13

Conner

Measurement issues and research design

Wines, JD, Saitz, R, Horton, NJ, Lloyd-Travaglini, C, Samet, JH.  “Suicidal behavior, drug use and depressive symptoms after detoxification:  a 2-year prospective study.  Article in press.

Dec 8

Duberstein

Theories of suicide, and why they aren’t supposed to be “right” Need for a developmental, mulitilevel, biopsychosocial  approachto research

Duberstein, P. (working paper). Standing at the crossroads of personology and prevention science: A view from suicide research

Duberstein, P., Beckman, A. (working paper). Barriers to psychological research on completed suicide.  

TBD

Duberstein

Terminology

O’Carroll, PW; Berman, AL; Maris, RW; Moscicki, EK; Tanney, BL; Silverman, MM.  “Beyond the Tower of Babel:  A Nomenclature for Suicidology” Suicide & Life – Threatening Behavior:  Fall 1996; 26,3; Research Library, pg. 237.

Jan 12

Wyman

Risk factors—children/adolescents

Vega, WA; Gil, AG; Zimmerman, RS; Warheit, GJ.  Risk factors for suicidal behavior among Hispanic, African American and non-Hispanic white boys in early adolescents.  Ethnicity & Disease.  Vol. 3, Summer 1993, pages 229-241

Borowsky, IW; Ireland, M; Resnick, MD.  Adolescent Suicide Attempts:  Risks and Protectors.  Pediatrics:  Mar 2001; 107,3; pg. 485-493

Singh, GK; Siahpush, M.  Increasing Rural-Urban Gradients in US Suicide Mortality, 1970-1997.  American Journal of Public Health; July 2002, Vol 92, No. 7, pages 1161-1167

Feb 9

Conner

Risk factors in the middle years

Price, RK; Risk, NK; Haden, AH; Lewis, CE; Spitznagel, EL. Post-Traumatic stress disorder, drug dependence, and suicidality among male Vietnam veterans with a history of heavy drug use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence: Volume 76, supplement 7. S31-44.

Chaudron, LH; Caine, ED. Suicide Among Women: A Critical Review. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association. Vol 59(2) 125-134

Mar 9

Conwell/

Duberstein

Risk factors--elderly

Duberstein PR, Conwell Y, Eberly S, Evinger JS, Caine ED. Social integration and suicide risk: Fact or artifact? Psychological Medicine 2004; n ; 34: 1331-1337

Conwell Y, Lyness JM, Duberstein P, Cox C, Seidlitz L, DiGiorgio A et al. Completed suicide among older patients in primary care practices: a controlled study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000; 48(1):23-29

Heisel M. Duberstein, PR.  Suicide prevention in older adults. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2005; 12: 242-259

Apr 13

Knox/Caine

Prevention 1--USAF

Hoge C, Castro C, Messer S, McGurk D, Cotting D, Koffman R. Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care. New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351(1):13-22

Kellman S, Langevin D. A framework for understanding “Evidence” in prevention and research programs. Prevention Science 2003;4(3): 137-153

May 11

Duberstein

Psychosocial treatments—adults

Hawton K, Sinclair J. The challenge of evaluating the effectiveness of treatments for deliberate self-harm. Psychological Medicine, 2003, 33, 955–958.

Hawton K, Arensman E, Townsend E, Bremner S, Feldman E, Goldney R, Gunnell D, Hazell P, Heeringen K, House A, Owens D, Sakinofsky I, Traskman-Bendz L. Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in prevention repetition. British Medical Journal.  1998; 317:441-7.

Rudd M.D., Joiner T, Jobes D, King Cheryl. The outpatient treatment of suicidology: An integration of science and recognition of its limitations. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 1999; 30(5), 437-446.

Brown G, Ten Have T, Gregg R.H., Sharon X.X., Hollander J, Beck A. Cognitive Therapy for the Prevention of Suicide Attempts: A randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2005; 294(5), 563-570.

Jun 8

Conwell

Treatment  —Pharmacology—adolescents and adults   

Tondo L, Hennen J, Baldessarini RJ. Lower suicide risk with long-term lithium treatment in major affective illness: a meta-analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2001; 104(3):163-172.

Meltzer HY, Alphs L, Green AI, Altamura AC, Anand R, Bertoldi A et al. Clozapine treatment for suicidality in schizophrenia: International Suicide Prevention Trial (InterSePT). Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60(1):82-91

Healy D. Lines of evidence on the risks of suicide with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. [Review] [64 refs]. Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics 2003; 72(2):71-79

Jul 13

Wyman/Cross/Conwell

Practice/Community level interventions

Quinnett P. QPR Theory.

Pena J, Caine E. Screening as an approach for adolescent suicide prevention. Unpublished Manuscript.

Unutzer J, Katon W, Callahan CM, Williams JW, Jr., Hunkeler E, Harpole L et al. Collaborative care management of late-life depression in the primary care setting: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA  2002; 288(22):2836-2845.

Bruce ML, Ten Have T, Reynolds CF, III, Katz IR, Schulberg HC, Mulsant BH et al. Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed Older Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 2004; 291(9):1081-1091.

De Leo D, Dello BM, Dwyer J. Suicide among the elderly: the long-term impact of a telephone support and assessment intervention in northern Italy. [see comments.]. Br J Psychiatry 2002; 181:226-229.