Speaker
Presentation in SpanishELENA HUGUET
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID. SPAIN
Dr. Elena Huguet Cuadrado is a licensed health psychologist, researcher, and lecturer specializing in suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid.
She is currently a lecturer at the European University of Madrid, where she teaches in the field of clinical and health psychology within the Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology (MPGS), and is a member of the Applied Differential Psychology research group (PSIDIA). In addition, she carries out academic coordination duties as the coordinator of Master’s theses (TFM) in the MPGS, and also collaborates as a thesis supervisor in several universities. She combines her academic work with clinical practice, having worked since 2013 with populations presenting high clinical complexity, particularly in emotional regulation difficulties and suicidal behavior.
She has participated in national and international conferences and in the development of educational and outreach materials in the field of mental health. Her work integrates research, clinical practice, and professional training, with the aim of improving early detection, assessment, and intervention in self-injurious and suicidal behaviors, thereby contributing to more effective and evidence-based psychological care.
Current Perspectives on Suicidal Behavior: Risk, Prevention, and Critical Moments
Suicide represents a serious public health problem that spans the life cycle and presents specific manifestations at different developmental stages, where the early identification of risk and the development of evidence-based preventive strategies are priorities.
This symposium aims to provide current perspectives on suicidal behavior, addressing risk factors, prevention, and critical moments from different population and methodological perspectives. The presentations included in the symposium analyze the phenomenon in key developmental contexts.
First, the validation of a suicide gatekeeper scale for Spanish-speaking populations will be presented, highlighting its usefulness for early detection and preventive intervention in educational and community settings.
Second, the relationship between postpartum depression and suicidal behavior in women will be addressed, a particularly vulnerable perinatal period which, although situated outside childhood itself, has direct implications for maternal–child well-being and the early prevention of risk.
Finally, the profile of suicide risk among first-year university students will be presented, a stage of life transition characterized by high levels of stress, identity changes, and increased emotional vulnerability.
From a methodological perspective, the symposium highlights the use of contemporary analytical approaches, such as latent class analysis and network analysis, which allow the complexity of suicidal behavior to be captured beyond traditional linear models. These methodologies facilitate the identification of risk subgroups, symptom patterns, and dynamic relationships among relevant psychological variables.
Overall, this symposium proposes an integrative view of suicidal behavior, emphasizing the importance of developmentally sensitive preventive approaches supported by innovative methodological tools, with clear implications for assessment, intervention, and the design of prev
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