{"id":426,"date":"2025-11-05T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/?p=426"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:05:14","slug":"new-strengthens-research-published-brief-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-bcbt-reduces-suicide-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/2025\/11\/05\/new-strengthens-research-published-brief-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-bcbt-reduces-suicide-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Further evidence that Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (BCBT) reduces suicide attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new <em>JAMA Psychiatry <\/em>study conducted by STRENGTHENS researchers evaluated the efficacy of <strong>Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (BCBT) <\/strong>vs an active comparator (present-centered therapy) among high-risk US military personnel and veterans reporting suicidal ideation or recent behaviors. Researchers found that <strong>participants receiving BCBT had a 75% lower rate of suicide attempts<\/strong> compared with the comparator group (5.6% vs 27.9%). Suicidal ideation decreased in both groups with no difference between treatments. This is the fifth randomized clinical trial (RCT) supporting BCBTs efficacy for reducing suicide attempts, providing further evidence supporting BCBT\u2019s clinical utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapsychiatry\/article-abstract\/2840019\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapsychiatry\/article-abstract\/2840019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new JAMA Psychiatry study conducted by STRENGTHENS researchers evaluated the efficacy of Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (BCBT) vs an active comparator (present-centered therapy) among high-risk US military personnel and veterans reporting suicidal ideation or recent behaviors. Researchers found that participants receiving BCBT had a 75% lower rate of suicide attempts compared with the comparator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/2025\/11\/05\/new-strengthens-research-published-brief-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-bcbt-reduces-suicide-attempts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Further evidence that Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (BCBT) reduces suicide attempts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/strengthens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}