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Handwriting Analysis Indicates Spontaneous Dyskinesias in Neuroleptic Naïve Adolescents at High Risk for Psychosis
Published on: November 21, 2013
[Personality and suicidal risk in adolescent students]
Emilia Lucio-Gómez Maqueo1, Quetzalcóatl Hernández-Cervantes2
1Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México.
Objective:
to assess if there is a profile of adolescent students for suiciding, if screening it at school contributes to design an intervention program, and to determine if such characterization facilitates the referral to psychological community services.
Methods:
participants were detected in a secondary school with 482 adolescents. An intervention strategy program was applied. The profile of 72 adolescent students at risk is described. Personality was assessed with the risk to suicide with the IRIS.
Results:
the characteristic study sample of 72 adolescents at-risk (52 girls, 20 boys, age 13.47 ± 1.07) exhibited heterogeneous personality profiles and MMPI-A code types, which introduces a new dimension that must be taken into account to improve suicide psychological interventions.
Conclusion:
assessing personality traits allows individual and group differences to be considered for intervention strategies and psychological support programs, in order to diminish suicidal risk in adolescent students.
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