Acute suicidal affective disturbance: Factorial structure and initial validation across psychiatric outpatient and inpatient samples

Anhedonia and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in psychiatric outpatients: The role of acuity

“…These proposed syndromes posit severe affective disturbance combined with physiological arousal and varying degrees of cognitive disturbance as syndromal states driving a transition to suicidal action. However, measures of anhedonia have not yet been incorporated into the measures aimed at assessing these syndromes (Galynker et al., ; Hawes, Yaseen, Briggs, & Galynker, ; Rogers et al., ; Stanley, Rufino, Rogers, Ellis, & Joiner, ; Tucker, Michaels, Rogers, Wingate, & Joiner, ; Yaseen et al., ; Yaseen et al., ; Yaseen, Gilmer, Modi, Cohen, & Galynker, ). Our findings suggest that measures targeting acute anhedonia, such as the SLIPS (Winer et al., ), could be an important addition to the assessment of these syndromes.…”

Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A review of supporting evidence for a new suicide‐specific diagnosis

“…Recent research has begun to identify psychological processes that occur in the days, hours, and minutes leading up to a suicide attempt (Bagge, Glenn, & Lee, ; Deisenhammer et al, ; Galynker, ; Rogers et al, ). Bagge et al () reported acute behavioral and psychological changes within hours preceding suicide attempts.…”

“…Further, Deisenhammer et al () showed that suicidal ideation could be a very late phenomenon in the suicidal process, appearing within 10 min preceding the suicide attempt. Reflecting these recent research findings, two acute suicidal diagnoses have been proposed: the Suicide Crisis Syndrome (SCS; Galynker, ) and Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD; Rogers et al, ). While there are similarities in some components, the SCS is distinct in that suicidal ideation is not required for diagnosis, though it may be present.…”

Predictive Validity of Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for the Suicide Crisis Syndrome: An Acute Presuicidal State

“…Two candidate acute suicide‐specific diagnosable conditions have been proposed and supported by preliminary research: the suicide crisis syndrome (SCS; Galynker et al., ; Yaseen, Gilmer, Modi, Cohen, & Galynker, ; Yaseen et al., , ) and acute suicidal affective disturbance (ASAD; Rogers, Chiurliza, et al., ; Rogers, Galynker, Yaseen, DeFazio, & Joiner, ; Stanley, Rufino, Rogers, Ellis, & Joiner, ; Tucker, Michaels, Rogers, Wingate, & Joiner, ).…”