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Future-Oriented Treatments for Suicide: An Overview of Three Modern Approaches

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A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide

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Future-oriented expectancies, including pessimism and hopelessness, are long-established risk factors for suicide; however, modern theories and developing treatments also address positive views of the future, such as an adaptive future orientation, optimism, and hopefulness. In this chapter, Hope Therapy, Future-Directed Therapy, and Future-Oriented Group Training are discussed, including their rationale and application to the treatment of depression and suicidality. What these three treatments have in common is a temporal focus on the future, and the encouragement of patients to strive toward adaptive, future-focused goals. Yet, each approaches this task in a slightly different manner, whether by insuring that the goal of suicide is replaced with life-saving behaviors that enhance the patient’s ability to view the past, present, and future from a cognitively healthier perspective, or by promoting goal-setting and problem-solving abilities. Although additional research is needed, preliminary findings indicate that future-focused therapies may be successfully utilized as an adaptive, strengths-based approach to the treatment of suicide risk factors, as well as suicidal outcomes.

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Yu, E., Cheavens, J., Vilhauer, J., van Beek, W. (2018). Future-Oriented Treatments for Suicide: An Overview of Three Modern Approaches. In: Hirsch, J., Chang, E., Kelliher Rabon, J. (eds) A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide . Advances in Mental Health and Addiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03225-8_9

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