APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
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
Session: Poster Session IV
Authors
- Olivia PollakPresenting Author
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
