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Transitions to, and correlates of, suicidal ideation, plans, and unplanned and planned suicide attempts among 3,729 men and women with alcohol dependenceKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14620, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:654-62. 2007....
Mood, anxiety, and substance-use disorders and suicide risk in a military population cohortKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 42:699-708. 2012..Moreover, the associations between mood and anxiety disorders with suicide were greatest within a year of treatment presentation...- The next generation of psychological autopsy studies: part 2. Interview proceduresKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 42:86-103. 2012..This methodological article is the second in a two-part series-the first article focused on interview content... - Alcohol and suicidal behavior: overview of a research workshopKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and Laboratory of Personality and Development, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:2S-5S. 2004 - Predisposing and precipitating factors for suicide among alcoholics: empirical review and conceptual integrationKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and Laboratory of Personality and Development, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:6S-17S. 2004..Empirical evidence for the model is discussed along with its limitations. The next generation of research on alcoholism and suicide should include a focus on the interpersonal anlage of suicide in this population... - Meta-analysis of depression and substance use and impairment among intravenous drug users (IDUs)Kenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Psychiatry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Addiction 103:524-34. 2008.... - A call for research on planned vs. unplanned suicidal behaviorKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 34:89-98. 2004.... - NEO-PI-R neuroticism scores in substance-dependent outpatients: internal consistency and self-partner agreementKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Pers Assess 83:75-7. 2004..36). Agreement between self and partner reports was low for impulsiveness (.22) and vulnerability (.24) and was modest for the remaining facets of N (.31 to.34) and the N domain score (.31)... 
Predictors of low-intent and high-intent suicide attempts in rural ChinaKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1842-6. 2007..Acts of suicide are heterogeneous with respect to level of intent. Data on correlates of intent are overwhelmingly from Western samples. We sought to identify correlates of low-intent and high-intent suicide attempts in China...- Precontemplated and impulsive suicide attempts among individuals with alcohol dependenceKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14620, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:95-101. 2006..Some suicide attempts are precontemplated, whereas other attempts are impulsive. The purpose of this study was to compare characteristics and correlates of impulsive and precontemplated suicide attempts... - The association of irritability and impulsivity with suicidal ideation among 15- to 20-year-old malesKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and Laboratory of Personality and Development, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 34:363-73. 2004..Given that irritable, impulsive adolescent males appear to contemplate suicidal behavior, their heightened suicide risk may be anticipated and mitigated... - Initial depression and subsequent drinking during alcoholism treatmentKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:401-6. 2005..The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of depression at treatment entry on drinking over the course of treatment... - Low-planned suicides in ChinaKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester UR Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychol Med 35:1197-204. 2005..The association of planning and method in completed suicide was also assessed... - Reliability of the Impulsive-Premeditated Aggression Scale (IPAS) in treated opiate-dependent individualsKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Addict Behav 32:655-9. 2007..Findings support the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the IPAS in male and female opiate-dependent individuals... - Aggression in suicide among adults age 50 and overKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 12:37-42. 2004..Aggression confers risk for suicide in younger adults, but there is a paucity of research in middle and older adults. The authors examined the link between aggression and suicide in individuals age 50 and over... - Planning of suicide attempts among depressed inpatients ages 50 and overKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Affect Disord 97:123-8. 2007.... - The next generation of psychological autopsy studies. Part I. Interview contentKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 41:594-613. 2011..The benefits and challenges to using common protocols across studies are also discussed... - Violence, alcohol, and completed suicide: a case-control studyK R Conner
Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:1701-5. 2001..Violent behavior may represent a risk factor for suicide. The authors tested the hypothesis that violent behavior in the last year of life is associated with completed suicide, even after controlling for alcohol use disorders... - Psychological vulnerability to completed suicide: a review of empirical studiesK R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 31:367-85. 2001..Current knowledge of psychological vulnerability to completed suicide could inform social and neurobiological research, and thereby deepen understanding of suicide while potentially bridging these areas of study... - Meta-analysis of depression and substance use and impairment among cocaine usersKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 98:13-23. 2008..Also examined was the association of depression with future cocaine use and impairment and substance use treatment participation... - Test of a clinical model of drinking and suicidal riskKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:60-8. 2011.... - The role of drinking in suicidal ideation: analyses of Project MATCH dataKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:402-8. 2003..The associations of suicidal ideation with both the intensity (drinks per drinking day) and frequency of alcohol consumption were examined in a longitudinal study of treated alcoholics... - Reliability of the Lifetime Inventory of Drug Use Consequences (INDUC) in methadone maintenance patientsKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 41:93-8. 2009..The interpersonal scale was also reliable across strata whereas the physical and intrapersonal scales were not reliable. The impulse control and social responsibility scales were stable but not internally consistent... - State firearm laws and rates of suicide in men and womenKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Prev Med 25:320-4. 2003..To evaluate the associations of state laws restricting firearms and incidence rates of suicide in men and women using a cross-sectional design... - Moderators of the relationship between alcohol dependence and suicide and medically serious suicide attempts: analyses of Canterbury Suicide Project dataKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1156-61. 2003.... - Risk factors for suicide and medically serious suicide attempts among alcoholics: analyses of Canterbury Suicide Project dataKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:551-4. 2003..The purpose of this study is to identify risk factors for serious suicidal behavior among individuals with alcohol dependence... - Poor social integration and suicide: fact or artifact? A case-control studyP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychol Med 34:1331-7. 2004..Sociological studies have shown that poor social integration confers suicide risk. It is not known whether poor integration amplifies risk after adjusting statistically for the effects of mental disorders and employment status... - Age-related patterns of factors associated with completed suicide in men with alcohol dependenceK R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, N Y 14642, USA
Am J Addict 8:312-8. 1999..Results suggest that factors associated with suicide may cluster in male alcoholics of differing ages, with implications for risk recognition and intervention... - Personality correlates of hopelessness in depressed inpatients 50 years of age and olderP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
J Pers Assess 77:380-90. 2001..Efforts to tie Hopelessness with the motivational, affective, and interpersonal constructs subsumed under Extraversion are warranted... - Suicide at 50 years of age and older: perceived physical illness, family discord and financial strainP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychol Med 34:137-46. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Interventions to decrease the likelihood of financial stress and to help families manage discord and severe physical illness may effectively reduce suicides among middle-aged and older adults... - Personality and reports of suicide ideation among depressed adults 50 years of age or olderMarnin J Heisel
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA
J Affect Disord 90:175-80. 2006..Despite this concern, there is little research on the psychological processes driving reported suicide ideation in at-risk patients... - Sex differences in correlates of suicide attempt lethality in late lifeAlexandre Y Dombrovski
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:905-13. 2008..To understand this sex difference, the authors assessed correlates of suicide attempt lethality in older men and women... - The validity of proxy-based data in suicide research: a study of patients 50 years of age and older who attempted suicide. II. Life events, social support and suicidal behaviorK R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, 3300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:452-7. 2001.... - The validity of proxy-based data in suicide research: a study of patients 50 years of age and older who attempted suicide. I. Psychiatric diagnosesK R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:204-9. 2001.... - Personality and attempted suicide in depressed adults 50 years of age and older: a facet level analysisJ David Useda
Laboratory of Personality and Development, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Compr Psychiatry 45:353-61. 2004..Interventions tailored to specific personality profiles in this high-risk group should be developed, and their efficacy examined... - Domestic violence, separation, and suicide in young men with early onset alcoholism: reanalyses of Murphy's dataK R Conner
Geriatrics and Neuropsychiatry Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:354-9. 2000..Domestic violence appears to typify many of their domestic relationships, particularly among younger men and men with early onset alcoholism... - Childhood sexual abuse and depressive symptom severity: the role of neuroticismStephanie A Gamble
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642-8409, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:382-5. 2006..These findings suggest that neuroticism may be one way in which childhood sexual abuse contributes to depressive symptoms in later life. Prospective studies are needed... - Risk factors for suicide in blacks and whites: an analysis of data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback SurveyKathryn Castle
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:452-8. 2004..The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey represented an unprecedented opportunity to identify risk factors for suicide in blacks and to determine whether race differences (black versus white) in risk factors exist... - Dimensions of psychopathy in relation to suicidal and self-injurious behaviorMarc T Swogger
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Pers Disord 23:201-10. 2009..Present findings refine previous results from studies using the two-factor PCL:SV model and have important implications for the assessment of suicide risk... - Injury hospitalization and risks for subsequent self-injury and suicide: a national study from New ZealandKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1128-31. 2003..Risks for suicide and nonfatal self-injury hospitalizations associated with previous injury hospitalizations were investigated in a nationwide retrospective cohort study conducted in New Zealand... - Health status and suicide in the second half of lifeYeates Conwell
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester UR, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25:371-9. 2010..To examine the associations of suicide in the second half of life with medical and psychiatric illness, functional limitations, and reported use of inpatient, ambulatory, and home health care services... - Dispositional and explanatory style optimism as potential moderators of the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideationJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642 8409, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 36:661-9. 2006..Optimism may be an important moderator of the association. The development of treatments to enhance optimism may complement standard treatments to reduce suicidality that target depression and hopelessness... - Effects of pretreatment and posttreatment depressive symptoms on alcohol consumption following treatment in Project MATCHStephanie A Gamble
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14620, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:71-7. 2010.... - Protection order petitioners' health care utilizationCatherine Cerulli
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Violence Against Women 16:679-90. 2010..The response to address interpersonal violence victimization should attempt to connect women using the courts with needed health care services... - Bridging healthcare, police, and court responses to intimate partner violence perpetrated by individuals with severe and persistent mental illnessCatherine Cerulli
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, NY 14618, USA
Psychiatr Q 75:139-50. 2004..This article discusses the potential for a more flexible approach to IPV through interdisciplinary coordination and training of police, judges, attorneys, legal advocates, mental health professionals and substance abuse providers... - Psychopathy and axis I psychiatric disorders among criminal offenders: relationships to impulsive and proactive aggressionMarc T Swogger
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Aggress Behav 36:45-53. 2010..Moreover, current findings raise the possibility that generalized anxiety is a key, modifiable component of the relationship between IA and impulsive-antisocial traits... - Concordance about childhood sexual abuse among depressed patients 50 and over and their family and friendsStephanie A Gamble
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Arch Suicide Res 11:321-6. 2007.... - Reliability of the UCLA Loneliness Scale in opiate dependent individualsPeter C Britton
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642 8409, USA
J Pers Assess 88:368-71. 2007..The UCLA LS was highly correlated with a measure of perceived belonging, supporting criterion validity. Findings support the use of the UCLA LS with methadone maintenance patients... - Threatened and attempted suicide by partner-violent male respondents petitioned to family violence courtKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, The State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law Family Violence Clinic, NY 14642, USA
Violence Vict 17:115-25. 2002..The study of suicidal behavior in partner-violent men may inform the prevention of suicide and severe domestic violence... - Suicide attempts among individuals with opiate dependence: the critical role of belongingKenneth R Conner
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642 8409, United States
Addict Behav 32:1395-404. 2007..Findings underscore the relevance of a sense of belonging to vulnerability to suicidal behavior, and lend further support to the notion that suicide attempts and unintentional overdose have dissimilar correlates... - Personality differences in attempted suicide versus suicide in adults 50 years of age or olderJ David Useda
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:126-33. 2007..The authors conclude that AT and SU in this age group can be distinguished on the basis of informant ratings of personality traits. These differences can inform risk detection... - Optimism and suicide ideation among young adult college studentsJameson K Hirsch
Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology and Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
Arch Suicide Res 11:177-85. 2007..Prevention programs designed to enhance optimism in the college setting might decrease suicide risk... - A test of the reactive aggression-suicidal behavior hypothesis: is there a case for proactive aggression?Kenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:235-40. 2009..Moreover, sex served as a moderator, with PA showing an association with suicide attempt among men but not women. Results indicate the need for additional studies of PA and suicidal behavior... - Meta-analysis of depression and substance use among individuals with alcohol use disordersKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 37:127-37. 2009..Age moderated the association between depression and alcohol use and impairment such that the association was stronger in older samples... - The role of multifamily therapy in promoting retention in treatment of alcohol and cocaine dependenceK R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, NY 14642, USA
Am J Addict 7:61-73. 1998..Multifamily therapy may be a powerful method to engage patients families in treatment and promote treatment retention, especially in the early, intensive phases of treatment for cocaine dependency... - Future orientation and suicide ideation and attempts in depressed adults ages 50 and overJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:752-7. 2006..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that future orientation is associated with lower levels of suicide ideation and lower likelihood of suicide attempt in a sample of patients in treatment for major depression... - The association between suicidal ideation and childhood and adult victimizationWendy Nilsen
Wynne Center for Family Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Child Sex Abus 11:49-62. 2002..Additionally, results of multiple logistic regression analyses did not support the hypothesis that the relationship between childhood victimization and SI is moderated by re-victimization in adulthood... - Stressful life events and depressive symptoms: influences of gender, event severity, and depression historySungeun You
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:829-33. 2009..These results support Post's kindling hypothesis for severe life events but not for mild or moderate life events, and further only in women... - Future orientation moderates the relationship between functional status and suicide ideation in depressed adultsJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Depress Anxiety 24:196-201. 2007..Although prospective research is needed to test more rigorously the hypothesized protective role of positive future orientation, our data suggest that treatments designed to enhance future orientation might decrease suicide risk... - Association of alcohol and drug use disorders and completed suicide: an empirical review of cohort studiesHolly C Wilcox
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Family Research, George Washington University, Washington DC 20037, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S11-9. 2004..C., Barraclough, B., 1997. Suicide as an outcome for mental disorders. A meta-analysis, Br. J. Psychiatry 170, 205-228] of retrospective and prospective cohort studies of alcohol and drug use disorders and suicide... - Overview of workshop on drug abuse and suicidal behaviorLynda Erinoff
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S3-9. 2004 - Self-determination theory, motivational interviewing, and the treatment of clients with acute suicidal ideationPeter C Britton
University of Rochester Medical Center
J Clin Psychol 64:52-66. 2008..SDT-based suggestions and an adaptation of MI are introduced to guide clinicians through this process...