Coping, depression, and adolescent suicide attempts

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Abstract
Compared adolescent suicide attempters, suicide ideators, nonsuicidal psychiatric inpatients, and nonsuicidal high school students on how often they would use different cognitive and behavioral coping strategies if confronted with a problem with their parents. Psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents, whether suicide attempters, ideators, or nonsuicidal, were more likely than high school students to rely on social withdrawal. Psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents with clinically elevated scores on the Beck Depression Inventory were more likely to use social withdrawal and blaming others if confronted with the problem and less likely to use social support and cognitive restructuring than nondepressed inpatients. Clinical implications are discussed for enhancing coping strategies used by depressed and psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.

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