Imagining the Future during a Suicidal Crisis: A Descriptive and Predictive Examination of Episodic Future Thinking Using a Performance-Based Measure Among Suicidal Youth in the Emergency Department

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Clinical Science

Olivia Pollak
UNC Chapel Hill
Ki Eun Shin
Long Island University, Post Campus
Argelinda Baroni
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Ruth Gerson
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Kerri-Anne Bell
University of Notre Dame
Katherine Tezanos
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Sara Fernandes
Teachers College, Columbia University
Donald Robinaugh
Northeastern University
Daniel Schacter
Harvard University
Anthony Spirito
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Christine Cha
Teachers College, Columbia University

Abstract

Future thinking is implicated in suicide theories but rarely examined empirically. We investigated episodic future thinking among suicidal youth using a novel performance-based task. During a suicidal crisis, youth generated specific autobiographical future events but did not perceive them as likely to occur. Greater future thinking predicted future suicidal thoughts/behaviors.

Suicide

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Imagining the Future during a Suicidal Crisis: A Descriptive and Predictive Examination of Episodic Future Thinking Using a Performance-Based Measure Among Suicidal Youth in the Emergency Department

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