“Schools can really help by building depression, anxiety, impulsivity into regular biology or health classes,” says David Shaffer, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Columbia ...
Posts by Category: Suicide and School-Age Youth
Scared to death
When it comes to suicide and schools, many adults are scared to death to address this, and misperceptions remain. “Schools are very hesitant. They’re afraid to talk about suicide for fear it will ...
Most vulnerable
“A child can’t be depressed.” It’s what we adults told ourselves for years, when mood disorders and thoughts of suicide were shrouded in stigma and shame. Today we know better. We’ve heard about ...
Competing priorities
Emphasis on academics Rosemary Rubin thinks schools should be engaged in prevention so kids don’t start down the continuum of self-destructive behaviors that can culminate in suicide. Co-chair of ...
School-based clinics
Helping the whole child Suicide typically doesn’t occur in isolation. Other factors are usually present such as access to weapons, engaging in unprotected sex, clinical depression, bullying, ...
Early onset
In its National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) released in July 2005, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) revealed the incredible prevalence of mental illnesses, the early age ...
Suicide rate debate
Youth suicide rates have tripled since the 1950s. Why? Why do more of today’s youngsters feel that life is not worth living, that death is the way out of the pain of day-to-day life? David Lester ...