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| Gregory K BrownSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Suicide attempters' reaction to survival as a risk factor for eventual suicideGregg Henriques
Department of Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:2180-2. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Suicide attempters' reaction to surviving is an important clinical variable that is easily assessed in evaluations that occur following a suicide attempt...- When does the daily hazard rate for committing suicide stabilize in psychiatric outpatients?Robert A Steer
Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Straford 08084 1391, USA
Psychol Rep 99:462-4. 2006..The cost-effectiveness of conducting follow-up studies to identify suicidal risk factors in psychiatric outpatients beyond three years was questioned... - Characteristics of recent suicide attempters with and without Borderline Personality DisorderMichele S Berk
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90509, USA
Arch Suicide Res 11:91-104. 2007..These findings highlight the seriousness of BPD and the risk that individuals diagnosed with this disorder will attempt suicide... - The internal struggle between the wish to die and the wish to live: a risk factor for suicideGregory K Brown
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Rm 2030, Philadelphia, PA 19104 3309, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1977-9. 2005..This study attempted to assess whether an index of the difference between the wish to die and the wish to live constitutes a risk factor for suicide... - An open clinical trial of cognitive therapy for borderline personality disorderGregory K Brown
Psychopathology Research Unit, The Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
J Pers Disord 18:257-71. 2004..Implications for further research with this difficult-to-treat patient population are discussed... - Suicide intent and accurate expectations of lethality: predictors of medical lethality of suicide attemptsGregory K Brown
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:1170-4. 2004..Specifically, higher levels of suicide intent were associated with more lethal attempts but only for those individuals who had more accurate expectations about the likelihood of dying from their attempts... - Cognitive therapy for the prevention of suicide attempts: a randomized controlled trialGregory K Brown
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
JAMA 294:563-70. 2005..Suicide attempts constitute a major risk factor for completed suicide, yet few interventions specifically designed to prevent suicide attempts have been evaluated... 
Reducing suicidal ideation and depression in older primary care patients: 24-month outcomes of the PROSPECT studyGeorge S Alexopoulos
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, 21 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:882-90. 2009..This is the first report of outcomes over a 2-year period...- Attitudes regarding the etiology and treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease: a qualitative studyKatherine Oehlberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 2676, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 21:123-32. 2008..This preliminary study suggests that many PD patients with clinically significant depressive symptoms attribute their depression to psychosocial factors and endorse nonpharmacologic treatment approaches... - Suicidal and death ideation in Parkinson's diseaseSarra Nazem
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mov Disord 23:1573-9. 2008..Comorbid psychiatric disorders, more than PD-related disease variables, are associated with this ideation, highlighting the need for a comprehensive approach to the clinical care of PD patients... - History of multiple suicide attempts as a behavioral marker of severe psychopathologyEvan M Forman
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:437-43. 2004..The current study aimed to test the hypothesis that multiple suicide attempters would exhibit a more severe clinical profile than single suicide attempters... - Chronic medical conditions and wishes to die among older primary care patientsYeowon A Kim
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 36:183-98. 2006..Persons with a history of myocardial infarction may be particularly vulnerable to a wish to die... - Suicidality and psychosis: beyond depression and hopelessnessDebbie M Warman
Department of Psychiatry, Psychopathology Research Unit, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 34:77-86. 2004..During the follow-up period, patients with psychotic disorders subsequently attempted suicide at a significantly higher rate than patients without psychotic disorders. The clinical relevance of these findings is discussed... - Hypothesized mechanisms of change in cognitive therapy for borderline personality disorderAmy Wenzel
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:503-16. 2006..Findings from the CT trial support the role of cognitive change during therapy and its continuation after termination... 
Dysfunctional beliefs and psychopathology in Borderline Personality DisorderSunil S Bhar
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Pers Disord 22:165-77. 2008..Given its multidimensional structure, the scale can be used as a measure of belief profiles associated with BPD and as an aid to conceptualizing beliefs underlying a range of psychopathology associated with patients with BPD...- The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: initial validity and internal consistency findings from three multisite studies with adolescents and adultsKelly Posner
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Am J Psychiatry 168:1266-77. 2011..The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was designed to quantify the severity of suicidal ideation and behavior. The authors examined the psychometric properties of the scale... - Dysfunctional beliefs in panic disorder: The Panic Belief InventoryAmy Wenzel
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St, Room 2032, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Behav Res Ther 44:819-33. 2006..These results provide preliminary evidence that the PBI has adequate psychometric characteristics, is useful to assess change in dysfunctional beliefs during treatment, and has the potential to advance cognitive theories of panic... - Attachment-based family therapy for adolescents with suicidal ideation: a randomized controlled trialGuy S Diamond
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:122-31. 2010..To evaluate whether Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is more effective than Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) for reducing suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents... - Cosmetic breast augmentation and suicideDavid B Sarwer
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1006-13. 2007..This article discusses the unexpected relationship between cosmetic breast implants and suicide that has been found in six epidemiological investigations completed in the last several years... - Recruiting older men for geriatric suicide researchSunil S Bhar
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 25:88-95. 2013.... - Causal mediation analyses with rank preserving modelsThomas R Ten Have
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Biometrics 63:926-34. 2007..The trade-off between these assumptions is evaluated in the context of two suicide/depression intervention studies... - Suicide risk factors and mediators between childhood sexual abuse and suicide ideation among male and female suicide attemptersMegan Spokas
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Stress 22:467-70. 2009..In contrast, there were fewer group differences as a function of CSA history among the female suicide attempters. Hopelessness was a significant mediator between CSA history and suicide ideation in both men and women... - History of family suicide behaviors and negative problem solving in multiple suicide attemptersElizabeth L Jeglic
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Arch Suicide Res 9:135-46. 2005..Results of this study are discussed as they pertain to the theory and treatment of suicide attempters... - Reducing suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in depressed older primary care patients: a randomized controlled trialMartha L Bruce
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, White Plains, NY, USA
JAMA 291:1081-91. 2004..The intervention's effectiveness in reducing suicidal ideation, regardless of depression severity, reinforces its role as a prevention strategy to reduce risk factors for suicide in late life... - Assessment of dysfunctional beliefs in borderline personality disorderAndrew C Butler
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Behav Res Ther 40:1231-40. 2002..A BPD beliefs scale constructed from these items showed good internal consistency and diagnostic validity among the 288 study patients. The scale may be used to assist in diagnosis and cognitive therapy of BPD... - An assessment of suicide in an urban VA Medical CenterRichard Thompson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, USA
Psychiatry 65:327-37. 2002..These findings demonstrate the importance of acknowledging that risk factors for suicide are specific to sites or populations; this information can be used in allocating resources for developing site-specific strategies for prevention... - Psychometric properties of the scale for suicide ideation in ChinaJie Zhang
Department of Sociology, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14222 1095, USA
Arch Suicide Res 11:203-10. 2007..These findings indicated that the Chinese version of the SSI has excellent psychometric properties for measuring suicidal ideation in Chinese populations... - Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in low-income, African American suicide attemptersSean Joe
School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Pers Assess 90:521-3. 2008..The results indicate that the BDI-II is a reliable and valid measure of depressive symptoms for African American suicide attempters... - Factors of suicide ideation and their relation to clinical and other indicators in older adultsTracy K Witte
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270, United States
J Affect Disord 94:165-72. 2006..CONCLUSION: The current study has provided data on the factor structure of the SSI in an older population, demonstrating that suicidal ideation in this group is similar to younger age groups... - Early alliance, alliance ruptures, and symptom change in a nonrandomized trial of cognitive therapy for avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disordersJennifer L Strauss
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:337-45. 2006..This work points to potentially important areas to target in treatment development for these personality disorders... - Overview of workshop on drug abuse and suicidal behaviorLynda Erinoff
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S3-9. 2004
Research Grants
- Drug Abuse, Psychological Variables and Suicide AttemptsGregory Brown; Fiscal Year: 2005....