Speaker
Presentation in SpanishCRISTINA LARROY
COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID. SPAIN
Cristina Larroy holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the same university, and Director of PsiCall UCM (Immediate Telematic Psychological Assistance Service for UCM students). Additionally, she is the director of the Master’s Program in Clinical Psychology: Professional Practice at UCM and vice president of the Spanish Society of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology. She has previously served as the Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology at UCM and Director of the University Clinic of Psychology at UCM.
Her most relevant research line focuses on Clinical and Health Psychology, especially regarding women and young people: epidemiological studies, assessment, prevention, intervention, and health promotion at early ages. In recent years, she has also been working on issues related to telepsychology and new technologies applied to the assessment and intervention of mental health problems.
She is the author of numerous scientific and popular science books, chapters, and scientific articles, as well as over 200 contributions to national and international conferences.
Factors Related to Suicidal Behaviors in University Students
Psychological support services have become a particularly important resource for the university population, primarily providing guidance, support, and prevention of mental health problems during the critical developmental stage between adolescence and adulthood. The Complutense University of Madrid offers a remote psychological support service that provides free assistance via telephone and email to students enrolled at the UCM or in one of its residential colleges (PsiCall UCM). In this symposium, the results of research examining several factors related to suicidal behaviors among UCM students, collected through the service over the past five years, will be presented.
The symposium will consist of four presentations.
The first presentation will describe the functioning of the PsiCall UCM service, the variables common to all the studies, the characteristics of the sample (shared across all investigations), and the procedures used for data collection and the construction of the database used in the analyses.
The second presentation examines how different suicidal behaviors are related to students’ academic fields of study. It analyzes whether there are areas of knowledge in which students are more likely to present behaviors within the suicidal spectrum (from passive ideation to suicide attempts) and how these behaviors are distributed across different academic fields.
The third presentation explores the relationship between different suicidal behaviors (from passive ideation to suicide attempts) and levels of anxiety, as recent research suggests that this construct may play a more significant role in suicidal behaviors than mood disorders.
The final presentation investigates the relationship between different suicidal behaviors (including non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors) and sexual abuse, given that this appears to be an important predictor of such behaviors.
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