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Direct linkMajeed-Ariss, Rabiya; Mattison, Michelle; Rodriguez, Pablo M.; White, Catherine – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: People with learning disabilities are over-represented amongst Sexual Assault Referral Centre service users. This work aims to explore the similarities and differences between service users with and without learning disabilities. Method: Medical notes of 52 service users likely to have a learning disability were compared with 52…
Descriptors: Rape, Referral, Medical Evaluation, Patients
Download full textMacdonald, Stephen J.; Deacon, Lesley; Merchant, Jacqueline – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between dyslexia, homelessness, and drug use and dependency based on data from the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Across the United Kingdom Survey, a national survey of 443 respondents who had experienced some form of homelessness in the U.K. Of particular interest was a comparison of the various…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Drug Use, Dyslexia, National Surveys
You, Jianing; Ma, Congfen; Lin, Min-Pei; Leung, Freedom – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
This study examined adolescents' experiences associated with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and compared among the experiences of self-cutting, hitting, and scratching. Participants included 42 Chinese adolescents attending secondary schools. They had at least three NSSI episodes in the preceding year. Information about their experiences of NSSI…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Psychopathology, Comparative Analysis, Asians
Crowell, Sheila E.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Hsiao, Ray C.; Vasilev, Christina A.; Yaptangco, Mona; Linehan, Marsha M.; McCauley, Elizabeth – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
Self-inflicted injury (SII) in adolescence marks heightened risk for suicide attempts, completed suicide, and adult psychopathology. Although several studies have revealed elevated rates of depression among adolescents who self injure, no one has compared adolescent self injury with adolescent depression on biological, self-, and informant-report…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Personality Problems, Females, Injuries
Kerr, Dianne L.; Santurri, Laura; Peters, Patricia – Journal of American College Health, 2013
Objective: To investigate selected mental health characteristics of lesbians and bisexual undergraduate college women as compared with heterosexual college women. Participants: Self-identified lesbians and bisexual and heterosexual female college students who took part in the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Mental Health, Homosexuality
Pistorello, Jacqueline; Fruzzetti, Alan E.; MacLane, Chelsea; Gallop, Robert; Iverson, Katherine M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: College counseling centers (CCCs) are increasingly being called upon to treat highly distressed students with complex clinical presentations. This study compared the effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for suicidal college students with an optimized control condition and analyzed baseline global functioning as a…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Therapy, Personality Problems, Social Adjustment
Katz, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Though there are at least 12.4 million community college students, accounting for 44% of all undergraduates within the United States (Cohen & Brawer, 2008), little academic research has explored the mental health needs of community college students as a distinct population ( Floyd, 2003; Townsend & LaPaglia, 2000; Townsend, Donaldson,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Mental Health, Comparative Analysis
Boxer, Paul – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
This study employs a framework adopted in 2008 by Jacobson, Muehlenkamp, Miller, and Turner to explore differences in risk and treatment factors in a sample of 476 adolescent inpatients grouped with relation to their involvement in deliberately self-harmful (DSH) behavior. Participants were assigned to groups indicating no DSH, nonsuicidal…
Descriptors: Suicide, Psychopathology, Risk, Adolescents
Wyatt, Tammy; Oswalt, Sara B. – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: Stress and other mental health issues can negatively impact the health and academic performance of college students. Purpose: Examine relationships among stress, mental health, and academic classification in a national sample of college students. Methods: Analyses utilized secondary data from 27 387 college students responding to the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Mental Health, Comparative Analysis
Balsam, Kimberly F.; Lehavot, Keren; Beadnell, Blair – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has several deleterious effects on health and well-being, including increased risk for rape in adulthood. Such revictimization experiences are linked to negative mental health outcomes. The vast majority of literature on prevalence and impact of sexual revictimization has focused on heterosexual women. In an effort to…
Descriptors: Rape, Females, Incidence, Mental Health
Frottier, Patrick; Koenig, Franz; Seyringer, Michaela; Matschnig, Teresa; Fruehwald, Stefan – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
The "Viennese Instrument for Suicidality in Correctional Institutions" (VISCI) presented here is based on the results of a large case-control study and on research on literature examining suicide prevention in general and in the prison population in particular. The aim of this study was to validate the properties of the VISCI to differentiate…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Prevention, Suicide, Institutionalized Persons
Kliem, Soren; Kroger, Christoph; Kosfelder, Joachim – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: At present, the most frequently investigated psychosocial intervention for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the efficacy and long-term effectiveness of DBT. Method: Systematic bibliographic research was undertaken to find relevant literature from online…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Intervention, Dropout Rate, Mental Disorders
Claassen, Cynthia A.; Carmody, Thomas; Bossarte, Robert; Trivedi, Madhukar H.; Elliott, Stephen; Currier, Glenn W. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
Fatal and nonfatal intentional self-harm events in eight U.S. states were compared using emergency department, hospital, and vital statistics data. Nonfatal event rates increased by an estimated 24.20% over 6 years. Case fatality ratios varied widely, but two northeastern states' total event rates (fatal plus nonfatal) were very high (New…
Descriptors: Suicide, Geographic Regions, Public Health, At Risk Persons
Crane, Catherine; Williams, J. Mark. G.; Hawton, Keith; Arensman, Ella; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Bille-Brahe, Unni; Corcoran, Paul; De Leo, Diego; Fekete, Sandor; Grad, Onja; Haring, Christian; Kerkhof, Ad J. F. M.; Lonnqvist, Jouko; Michel, Konrad; Renberg, Ellinor Salander; Schmidtke, Armin; van Heeringen, Cornelius; Wasserman, Danuta – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The associations between life events in the 12 months preceding an episode of self-poisoning resulting in hospital attendance (the index episode), and the suicide intent of this episode were compared in individuals for whom the index episode was their first, episode and in individuals in whom it was a recurrence of DSH. Results indicated a…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Correlation, Self Destructive Behavior
Stack, Steven; Wasserman, Ira – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
The epidemiology of a neglected form of suicidal behavior, Russian roulette, is addressed. Also tested is an explanation of racial differences based on the opportunity theory of deviant behavior related to the availability of revolvers, necessary weapons with which to play Russian roulette. Data refer to 15 cases of Russian roulette found through…
Descriptors: Suicide, Epidemiology, Racial Differences, Correlation
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