Citation

Lachal J, Orri M, Moro MR, Revah-Levy A. Neuropsychiatr. Enfance Adolesc. 2015; 63(7): 473-481.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.neurenf.2015.03.002

PMID

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Abstract

Objectifs: Méthode: Résultats: Conclusion: Aims: Suicide is a major public health issue, one particularly affecting youth. This meta-synthesis of qualitative research studies the experience of adolescent and young adult suicide in order to suggest therapeutic propositions.

METHOD: Thematic analysis included 30 qualitative papers elicited by web searching on principal psychiatric databases. The papers questioned adolescents and young adults. Quality appraisal used the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP).

RESULTS: The results are organized around two main axes. The relational experience included three themes: feelings of difference and rejection; the experience of incomprehension; and the relation to others. The interpersonal experience included three themes: the experience of distress, self-control and self-perception.

CONCLUSION: The experience of suicide is bounded to the relation with others, and this relation is at the center of the therapeutic process. Therapists have to keep in mind this relational dimension and the necessity of the work with families and peers. Researchers have to take account of sociocultural impact on the expression of distress. © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS.

Language: fr

Keywords

adolescent; Child; adult; Psychology; human; Adolescent; suicide; Suicide; quality control; qualitative research; Qualitative research; human relation; self concept; emotion; emotional stress; self control; factual database; Article; personal experience; attitude to illness; young adult; thematic analysis; Meta-synthesis; assessment of humans; Critical Appraisal Skills Programme; feeling of difference; feeling of rejection; incomprehension; relational experience