Exploring the Complexity of Internalizing Disorders in Suicidal Youth and Suicide Prevention

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled "Exploring the Complexity of Internalizing Disorders in Suicidal Youth and Suicide Prevention.” Suicide remains a leading cause of death worldwide among adolescents and young adults. Suicide prevention requires a superior understanding of the complex factors that can identify suicidal youth. As an example, Bayesian network analysis can map the complex associations between the internalizing factors contributing to suicidal ideation and actions.

For this Special Issue, we welcome innovative psychometric and statistical modeling studies that utilize scores on valid measures to enhance our understanding of the relationships among internalizing disorders. Importantly, we encourage submissions across disciplines that examine the relationships between internalizing disorders, including suicidal thoughts, mood disorders, emotions, and at-risk behaviors in youth. We can better understand the risk and protective factors and inform upstream prevention models by elucidating the complex patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in clinical and non-clinical youth.

Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Network models of internalizing disorders in clinical/non-clinical samples.
• Factors that understand fluctuations in internalizing disorders or predict transitions from internalizing conditions (e.g., suicide-related thoughts) to externalizing disorders (e.g., suicidal attempts).
• Innovative modeling strategies for developing and validating scores on tools for screening/assessing internalizing disorders for youth and young adults.

We look forward to receiving your contributions employing contemporary modeling techniques to explore the complexity of internalizing disorders in suicidal youth and suicide prevention.

Prof. Dr. Augustine Osman
Dr. Jenny Mei Yiu Huen
Guest Editors

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• internalizing disorders
• youth suicide
• suicide prevention
• modern statistical and psychometric methods
• assessment