ArticleThe journal of positive psychology2020
Skills to Enhance Positivity in Suicidal Adolescents: Results from a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.
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- Ineligibility for and Refusal to Participate in Randomized Controlled Trials That Have Studied Impact on Suicide-Related Outcomes in the United States: A Meta-Analysis.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for self-harm in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Positive Affect as a Transdiagnostic Target for Reducing Adolescent Depression & Suicide Risk: Do Mindfulness, Savoring, & Gratitude Help?Journal of adolescence · 2026Trial
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- Self-harm and suicide prevention in humanitarian and fragile contexts: A systematic scoping review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- Synchronous virtual care in children's health care: a scoping review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- A daily diary study of minority stressors, suicidal ideation, nonsuicidal self-injury ideation, and affective mechanisms among sexual and gender minority youth.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Skills to Enhance Positivity in adolescents at risk for suicide: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2023Article
- A daily diary study of minority stress and negative and positive affect among racially diverse sexual minority adolescents.Journal of counseling psychology · 2021Article
- Prevention and early intervention of depression in young people: an integrated narrative review of affective awareness and Ecological Momentary Assessment.BMC psychology · 2021Review
- Sexual orientation differences in non-suicidal self-injury, suicidality, and psychosocial factors among an inpatient psychiatric sample of adolescents.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an intervention, Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP) that aims to increase attention to positive emotions and experiences and to decrease suicidal events. STEP involves four in-person individual sessions delivered during an inpatient psychiatric admission, followed by one month of weekly phone calls and daily text messages with mood monitoring and skills practice. A pilot randomized controlled trial of STEP vs. enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) was conducted with 52 adolescents. Results indicated that on average 83% of sessions were completed and that on 70% of days, participants engaged with the text-messaging component of the intervention. Acceptability for both in-person and text-messaging components were also high, with satisfaction ratings averaging between good and excellent. STEP participants reported fewer suicide events than ETAU participants (6 vs. 13) after six months of follow-up.
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