Connectedness and Suicide Prevention in Adolescents: Pathways and Implications

Adolescent suicide is a major public health concern. Stressing the need for public health–based solutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified “connectedness” as one means of pursuing this agenda. To advance this effort in suicide prevention with adolescents, (1) consistencies...

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Published in:Suicide & life-threatening behavior 2014-06, Vol.44 (3), p.246-272
Main Authors: Whitlock, Janis, Wyman, Peter A., Moore, Sarah R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Intervention
Male
Medical sciences
Preventive medicine
Psychology, Adolescent
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Suicidal Ideation
Suicide
Suicide - prevention & control
Suicides & suicide attempts
Teenagers
United States
Young Adult
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Summary:Adolescent suicide is a major public health concern. Stressing the need for public health–based solutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified “connectedness” as one means of pursuing this agenda. To advance this effort in suicide prevention with adolescents, (1) consistencies and variation in the literature overtly linking connectedness to suicide thoughts and behaviors (STB) are reviewed, (2) three more specific mechanistic pathways are proposed whereby connectedness may influence STB, and (3) several implications related to use of connectedness as a public health framework for adolescent suicide prevention and intervention are outlined.
ISSN:0363-0234
1943-278X
DOI:10.1111/sltb.12071