Developing Adaptive Treatment Strategies to Address Suicidal Risk in College Students: A Pilot Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART)

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 644-664

  Pistorello, Jacqueline ^a   Jobes, David A ^b   Compton, Scott N ^c   Locey, Nadia Samad ^d   Walloch, Joseph C ^a   Gallop, Robert ^e   Au, Josephine S ^b   Noose, Samantha K ^a   Young, Maria ^a   Johnson, Jacquelyn ^a   Dickens, Yani ^a   Chatham, Patricia ^a   Jeffcoat, Tami ^a   Dalto, Georgia ^a   Goswami, Spondita ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive strategies; CAMS; college students; DBT; SMART; suicidality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041899880     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2017.1392915     Document Type: Article

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