Suicidal Ideation
Speaker: Devise risk assessment plan for treating suicidal patients
Timely follow-up reduces suicide risk for youths discharged from psychiatric hospital
Despair among young adults may increase risk for suicidality, substance misuse
Esketamine nasal spray may rapidly reduce depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation with intent
Suicidal acts increase among women, adolescents, older adults
Adolescents’ internalizing mental health problems, related care causing new treatment demands, study suggests

The growing number of adolescents receiving care for internalizing mental health problems and the increasing share receiving care in specialty outpatient settings have put new demands on specialty adolescent mental health treatment centers, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers identify risk and protective factors for childhood suicidality
Antidepressant trials often exclude individuals with suicidality
Top stories in psychiatry: Role of hopelessness overestimated in suicidal ideation, ‘effortful behavior’ predicts depression relapse
Research has overestimated role of hopelessness in suicidal ideation

Hopelessness is likely a driving factor for suicidal ideation in patients with depressive disorder, largely because it covaries with depressive symptoms, according to study findings published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. However, researchers noted that severity of depressive symptoms may predict suicidal ideation more accurately than hopelessness.