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[Treatment plan for female adolescents in the grip of chronic suicidality]
Background:
A psychological autopsy study (Mérelle e.a. 2020) demonstrates a subgroup of female adolescents with chronic suicidal behavior and severe internalizing problems.
Aim:
To describe characteristics of the suicidal process and the challenges experienced in providing mental health care for this subgroup.
Method:
A case description and review of literature.
Results:
The persistent suicidal threat and the following despair of the patient and its parents are forcing care providers into an impasse: the primary focus of treatment is to guarantee the patient's safety, whereby the treatment of underlying problems is underexposed. Based on expert knowledge we make recommendations including autonomy-promoting treatment policy, treating suicidality as a transdiagnostic phenomenon, creating a multidisciplinary network of care providers and making chronic suicidality tolerable for care providers.
Conclusion:
We propose preliminary practical recommendations in our quest for optimal mental health care for chronic suicidal adolescents.
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