Breakthrough Therapy Greatly Reduces Future Suicide Attempts by Forging Connection
A new breakthrough study may finally provide mental health professionals with a glimpse into how to keep suicide cases from trying to take their own lives again after leaving the hospital.
Despite our growing willingness to address the issue of suicide and some minor victories, there’s been overall little headway made in reducing the number of deaths from it.
For instance, among adults aged 35 to 64, the annual, age-adjusted suicide rate has actually substantially increased since the turn of the millennium, from 13.7 deaths per 100,000 people in 1999 to 17.6 deaths in 2010, a 28 percent greater incidence. Similarly, there’s been no major advances in creating a widely adoptable psychiatric intervention that aims to prevent suicide for those especially at risk — namely people already hospitalized for a suicide attempt. A new study published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine, however, may provide us with the first glimpses of such a breakthrough.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/breakthrough-therapy-greatly-reduces-future-suicide-attempts-by-forging-connection/
For instance, among adults aged 35 to 64, the annual, age-adjusted suicide rate has actually substantially increased since the turn of the millennium, from 13.7 deaths per 100,000 people in 1999 to 17.6 deaths in 2010, a 28 percent greater incidence. Similarly, there’s been no major advances in creating a widely adoptable psychiatric intervention that aims to prevent suicide for those especially at risk — namely people already hospitalized for a suicide attempt. A new study published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine, however, may provide us with the first glimpses of such a breakthrough.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/breakthrough-therapy-greatly-reduces-future-suicide-attempts-by-forging-connection/