Displacement and suicide risk for juvenile justice-involved youth with mental health issues.
This article examined the relationship between suicide behaviors and displacement, as defined by out-of-home placement, in a sample of juvenile-justice-involved youth with mental health issues. Participants included boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 who were enrolled in a juvenile justice diversion program for children with mental or behavioral health problems. Data collected included youth-reported suicide and self-harm ideation, caregiver reports of previous suicide attempts, and whether the youth had been in an out-of-home placement in the year prior to enrollment in the program. Logistic regression analyses indicated that youth who had recently been in an out-of-home placement reported significantly less suicide ideation and marginally less self-harm ideation than youth who had not been in an out-of-home placement. Out-of-home placement status had no impact on caregiver reports of previous youth suicide attempts.
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. jeff.kretschmar@case.edu
Jeff M
JM
Kretschmar
Daniel J
DJ
Flannery
D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D012306:Risk; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult