Lisa Colpe, Janet M Blair, Rebecca Kurikeshu, Karin A Mack, Marcus Nashelsky, Stephen O'Connor, Jane Pearson, Diane Pilkey, Margaret Warner, Brendan Weintraub
BACKGROUND: Suicide rates for children and adolescents have been increasing over the past 2 decades. In April 2023, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a two-day workshop to address child and youth suicide. PURPOSE: The workshop focus was to discuss the state of the science and stimulate a collaborative response between researchers, death investigators, and data collection teams to build a science to service and service to science approach toward understanding - and ultimately preventing - this growing problem of child and youth suicide...
February 2024: Journal of Safety Research