Parenting Resources for Suicide Prevention in Teens during Covid-19
If your teen is currently in mental health treatment, please work closely with your teen’s provider to create a safety plan for the home and to continue with regularly scheduled appointments...
Teens, Mental Health, and Parenting in the Midst of Covid-19
As youth suicide researchers, we know that in stressful moments, it is always important to focus on reducing family conflict, experiencing togetherness, and staying hopeful...
Suicide-Related Risk among Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth: Important Considerations
To understand suicide-related risk among racial and ethnic minority youth, we should first consider the effects of racism on health...
Secondary Trauma: Qualitative Research with Survivors of Attempted Suicide
There is a growing empirical literature on secondary trauma, particularly in the mental health fields. Secondary trauma is defined as “harmful changes that occur in professionals’ views of themselves, others, and the world, as a result of exposure to the graphic and/or traumatic material of their clients”...
The Talk: Not the One You’re Thinking of
Having a conversation with youth about mental health and suicide can be extremely difficult…
Take a Closer Look: Suicide in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
Each year, approximately 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide, with suicide reported as the second leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds globally...
Stress and Adolescent Suicide: What Can We Learn from the Body?
When teens start going through puberty, biological systems responsible for responding to stress undergo rapid changes that make teens more reactive to stressors compared to when they were kids...
Youth and Digital Technology Use
Over the past decade digital technology has become ubiquitous in the lives of teens and young adults…
Transgender Youth and Suicidal Behavior: How Can We Mitigate Risk?
Transgender adolescents are at very high risk for suicidal ideation and behavior. Research has shown that approximately 65-75% of transgender adolescents think about suicide...
Does Watching “13 Reasons Why” Increase Youth Suicide Risk?
More emerging adults and adolescents learn about suicide from the media than from professionals, friends, and family...
Theories Explaining Suicidal Behaviors
For decades, people who study suicide–called suicidologists– have tried to understand why some people want to die but never try, why some people actually act on their suicidal thoughts, and why most people don’t think about or try to kill themselves...
A Youth Suicide Research Consortium Focused on Diversity
More people attempt suicide during adolescence than at any other time in life. In adulthood, people more often think about and attempt suicide between ages 18 and 25 than when they are older...