Description
Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. It addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk detection in school and medical settings, critical cultural considerations, and approaches to lethal means safety. This book offers cutting-edge research on emerging discoveries in the neurobiology of suicide, psychopharmacology, and machine learning. It focuses on upstream suicide prevention research methods and details how cost-effective approaches can mitigate youth suicide risk when implemented at a universal level. Chapters discuss critical areas for future research, including how to evaluate the effectiveness of suicide prevention and intervention efforts, increase access to mental health care, and overcome systemic barriers that undermine generalizability of prevention strategies. Finally, this book highlights what is currently working well in youth suicide prevention and, just as important, which areas require more attention and support.
Key topics include:
- The neurobiology of suicide in at-risk children and adolescents.
- The role of machine learning in youth suicide prevention.
- Suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention in schools.
- Suicide risk screening and assessment in medical settings.
- Culturally informed risk assessment and suicide prevention efforts with minority youth.
- School mental health partnerships and telehealth models of care in rural communities.
- Suicide and self-harm prevention and interventions for LGBTQ+ youth.
- Risk factors associated with suicidal behavior in Black youth.
- Preventing suicide in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID).
Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, sociology, and all related disciplines.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Best Practices in Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention.- Chapter 2. Epidemiology of Youth Suicide and Suicidal Behavior.- Chapter 3. Neurobiology of Suicide in Children and Adolescents: Implications for Assessment and Treatment.- Chapter 4. Machine Learning for Suicide Prediction and Prevention: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions.- Chapter 5. Effective Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention in Schools.- Chapter 6. Implementation and Dissemination Strategies for School-Based Suicide Prevention Programs.- Chapter 7. Youth Suicide in Schools: Understanding Bereavement, Contagion, and the Importance of Thoughtful Postvention.- Chapter 8. Utilizing Suicide Risk Screening as a Prevention Technique in the Medical Setting.- Chapter 9. Suicide Prevention Innovations in the Context of Pediatric Hospital Systems.- Chapter 10. Cultural Considerations in Suicide Assessment and Prevention with Minority Youth.- Chapter 11. What Suicide Prevention Research, Policy, and Practice Can Learn from Underserved Communities.- Chapter 12. Overcoming Barriers to Effective Suicide Prevention in Rural Communities.- Chapter 13. Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention and Intervention in LGBTQ+ Youth: Current Research and Future Directions.- Chapter 14. Black Youth Suicidal Behavior: What We Know and Where We Go from Here.- Chapter 15. Preventing Suicide in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability: Research Review, Clinical Strategies, and Policy Pathways.- Chapter 16. Standard Treatment of Youth Suicidality, Current Pitfalls and Potential Pathways to Growth and Recovery.- Chapter 17. Safety Planning and Lethal Means Safety Counseling.- Chapter 18. Youth Connection Helplines: Merging Best Practice Suicide Prevention within a System of Care.- Chapter 19. The Need for a Multifaceted Approach to Youth Suicide Prevention: Policy Recommendations.
