Every Wednesday afternoon, an alert flashes on the cellphones of about 50 teenagers in New York and Pennsylvania. Its questions are blunt: “In the past week, how often have you thought of killing yourself?” “Did you make a plan to kill yourself?” “Did you make an attempt to kill yourself?” More
A sample of research exploring the effects of worry in daily life, the role of learning capacity in CBT for depression, and self-injury and suicidal behavior in girls. More
A sample of research exploring factors related to disordered gambling, suicidal behavior and stress generation, and attention and depression. More
A sample of research exploring the relationship between neuroticism and depression and ways to integrate behavioral economics into suicide prevention strategies. More
More than 47,000 Americans killed themselves in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, contributing to an overall decline in U.S. life expectancy. Since 1999, the suicide rate has climbed 33 percent. Americans are more than twice as likely to die by their own hands, of their own will, than More
Clinical researchers and other scientists investigate computer algorithms that could lead to reliable measures of suicide risk. More
