ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2021
Suicidal Mental Imagery in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents.
Article in Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mental imagery of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Clinical psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Self-harm-related mental imagery: A content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- Practitioner Review: Treatments for young people who self-harm - challenges and recommendations for research and clinical practice.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Content and Process of Adolescent Suicide Ideation: Implications for Risk Assessment.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- The Suicidal Intrusions Attributes Scale (SINAS): a new tool measuring suicidal intrusions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Young children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors more likely to resolve conflicts with violence, homicide, or suicide: A study of internal working models using narratives.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- Future Directions in Understanding and Interpreting Discrepant Reports of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Youth.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents and suicide rates in this population have increased in recent years. A critical step in preventing suicide is improving the accuracy of suicide risk assessment. Measurement of suicidal cognitions typically emphasizes assessment of verbal thoughts about suicide. Recent research suggests, however, that suicidal mental imagery, or mentally imagining suicide-related content, may be even more strongly associated with suicidal behavior. No research has evaluated suicidal mental imagery in adolescents, however. The present study evaluated suicidal mental imagery and suicidal verbal thoughts in a sample of adolescents (N = 159) admitted to an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit. Of those adolescents who reported suicidal cognitions, 63.73% reported suicidal mental imagery. Adolescents who reported suicidal mental imagery had 2.40 greater odds of having made a suicide attempt, after accounting for history of suicidal verbal thoughts and relevant covariates. Findings suggest that suicidal mental imagery should be directly assessed when evaluating suicide risk, and that treatments may be optimized by targeting both suicidal verbal thoughts and suicidal mental imagery.
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