Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Understudied Samples Across the Lifespan: Implications for Transdiagnostic Interventions

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB)—comprising non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts—occur at high rates and are increasing, most notably among youth. However, scientific findings elucidating risk for SITB remain inconsistent. Understanding of factors that contribute to the onset and persistence of SITB across the lifespan are critical to develop transdiagnostic interventions and prevent cascading problems such as comorbid psychopathology and intergenerational transmission of risk. Furthermore, most SITB research consists of cross-sectional examination of small, unrepresentative samples of adolescents and young adults. Examination of SITB in high-risk, understudied populations across development is key for generalizable research and intervention.
This symposium seeks to fill this gap by exploring SITB in high-risk, understudied samples across the lifespan through a developmental psychopathology perspective. Our first presentation examines NSSI and substance use in the link between relationship stress and suicidal ideation and internalizing symptoms in adolescents at high-achieving schools. Our second presentation uses latent class analysis to examine risk profiles and suicide attempts among commercially sexually exploited female adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. Our third presentation examines responses to social stressors and the link to NSSI, suicide attempts, and internalizing symptoms among females with ADHD followed from childhood through adulthood. Our final presentation examines parenting, emotion dysregulation, and mindfulness among English- and Spanish-speaking mothers with histories of SITB followed through pregnancy to 7 months postpartum. Discussion will focus on implications of findings for development from in utero to young adulthood and future directions in SITB research and transdiagnostic intervention.

Sub Unit

• Developmental Psychopathology

Chairs

• Sheila E Crowell, University of Utah

• Sinclaire M. OGrady, University of California - Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• Adolescent Relationship Stress and Psychopathology: The Role of Substance Use and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury - Presenting Author: Julia S. Yarrington, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Sarit Forman, University of California - Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Kelsey Stiles, University of California - Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Steve Lee, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Suniya Luthar, Authentic Connections

• Risk Profiles of Suicide Attempts Among Juvenile Justice-Involved Commercially Sexually Exploited Girls–A Latent Class Analysis - Presenting Author: Jocelyn Meza, University of California - Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Phuc T Nguyen, University of California - Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Christine Grella, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Eraka Bath, University of California, Los Angeles

• Responses to Social Stressors Among Females with Childhood ADHD: Link to Self-Harm and Internalizing Symptoms - Presenting Author: Patricia A. Porter, University of California - Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Sinclaire M. OGrady, University of California - Berkeley; Non-Presenting Author: Stephen P Hinshaw, UC Berkeley

• Parenting among women with and without SITB histories: A call for transdiagnostic perinatal health care - Presenting Author: Parisa R. Kaliush, University of Utah; Non-Presenting Author: Jennifer Lauren Isenhour, University of Utah; Non-Presenting Author: Mindy A. Brown, Brigham Young University; Non-Presenting Author: Robert Vlisides-Henry, University of Utah; Non-Presenting Author: Mengyu (Miranda) Gao, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China; Non-Presenting Author: Lee Raby, University of Utah; Non-Presenting Author: Liz Conradt, Duke University; Non-Presenting Author: Sheila E Crowell, University of Utah