Suicide in Adolescents: Warning Signs, Risk Factors, and What Parents Can Do to Support Their Teens

• By: Hongmarie Martinez, PsyD Behavior Therapy Associates
• July 19th, 2023
• adolescents, mental health, parenting, risk factors, suicidal thoughts, suicidality, suicide, suicide attempt, suicide plan, Summer 2023 Issue, warning signs, Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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Suicidality can affect all age groups, including during the adolescent years (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2023). The CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (2023) reported data concerning U.S. high school students’...

Helping Families Cope with Serious Mental Illness: Maternal vs Social Work Instincts

• By: Ruth Colón-Wagner, LMSW VCS Inc.
• July 19th, 2023
• healing, hope, parenting, recovery, resiliency, serious mental illness, Summer 2023 Issue, trauma
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I am a Social Worker. I am also a mom of an adult child with SMI, specifically bi-polar disorder. My child is 23 and I pray that she welcomes God into her life. That’s the mom in me talking. As a social worker, I want her to get a job, find a great partner who will love her, and become as...