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’...

Empowering Adults to Recognize and Respond to Youth in Suicidal Distress

• By: Ali Rainone, LMSW Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• October 1st, 2020
• adults, community, fall 2020 issue, mental health, suicidal thoughts, suicide, training, youth
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The statistics regarding youth mental health are not only strikingly frightening but they point to the inexcusable reality that what is currently being done to address the problem is not working. According to the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five teens and young adults live...