Técnicas de intervención psicológica para el tratamiento de personas con conducta suicida

Abstract

Psychological intervention is one of the processes to address patients who present suicidal behavior, it uses psychological principles and techniques that allow adequate treatment, the same that are applied from their respective therapeutic approaches. For this reason, the study focused on describing the psychological techniques that have shown high levels of effectiveness in the treatment of people with suicidal behavior, through descriptive bibliographic analysis. Thus, information was obtained from scientific articles from 2015 to 2021, published in networks of scientific journals such as, scielo, redalyc and dialnet, as well as in the Institutional repository of the Cooperative University of Colombia. Finally, it is concluded that the psychological techniques that have shown a high level of effectiveness are those that belong to the cognitive-behavioral approach, followed by humanistic and gestalt techniques, showing a notable decrease in suicidal behavior.