Motivation, resisting, considering and accepting: A qualitative study investigating young adults’ participation in an intervention group for people with recurrent suicide-related behaviours

Recurrent suicide-related behaviour is associated with greater levels of psychopathology (Forman, Berk, Henriques, Brown, & Beck, 2004), increased risk of death by suicide (Beautrais, 2003) and can occur across a spectrum of mental illnesses (Oquendo, Baca-Garcia, Mann, & Giner, 2008; Nock, Hwang, Sampson et al., 2009). Perry, Fowler, Bailey et al. (2009) note that the transition away from suicide-related behaviours can take many years. There …