Skills to Enhance Positivity in adolescents at risk for suicide: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide and suicidal behavior during adolescence have been steadily increasing over the past two decades. The preponderance of interventions focuses on crisis intervention, underlying psychiatric disorders, regulating negative affect, and reducing cognitive distortions. However, low positive affectivity may be a mechanism that contributes to adolescent suicidal ideation and behaviors independent of other risk factors. Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP) is an acceptance-based intervention, designed to increase attention to, and awareness of, positive affect and positive experiences. Results from a pilot RCT demonstrated engagement of the target (positive affect) and a decrease in clinical outcomes (suicidal events; i.e., either a suicide attempt or an emergency intervent

SUBMITTER: Yen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10588868 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature