{"id":6778,"date":"2019-05-13T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grafton.local\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:29:41","slug":"preventing-youth-suicide-strategies-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/preventing-youth-suicide-strategies-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Youth Suicide: Strategies That Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>*This post, by Grafton&#8217;s Director of Youth Shelter Services, Rachael Reeder, was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/preventing-youth-suicide-strategies-that-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psych Central<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>American children are taking their own lives at an alarming rate. Over 7 percent of high school students say they engaged in non-fatal suicidal behavior, while 17 percent say they seriously considered suicide within the previous year, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyyouth\/data\/yrbs\/pdf\/trends\/2017_suicide_trend_yrbs.pdf\">nationwide survey<\/a>. For children under 15, the prevalence of death by suicide nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017. Considering these sobering statistics, it\u2019s no surprise that suicide has become the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jasonfoundation.com\/youth-suicide\/facts-stats\/\">second leading cause of death<\/a>\u00a0for youth between the ages of 12 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, many parents don\u2019t recognize the signs of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/6-steps-for-beating-depression\/\">depression<\/a>\u00a0in their children until a crisis occurs. It can be difficult to determine the difference between normal adolescent behavior and something far more serious. For\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/childrens-awareness-day\">National Children\u2019s Mental Health Awareness Day<\/a>\u00a0I want to use this opportunity to share strategies that have been proven to decrease suicidality in children and teens.<span id=\"more-130102\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago a teenage girl named Alyssa* came to me for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/psychotherapy\/\">therapy<\/a>, along with her family. She described feeling disconnected from her parents, who didn\u2019t understand her interests. She spent a lot of time in her room watching anime, playing video games, and chatting with her friends online. Like many young girls, she had negative experiences with peers at school and felt acute academic pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents saw no cause for alarm until they were contacted by a concerned school counselor, in whom their daughter had confided. When they learned Alyssa had thoughts about harming herself, they decided it would be safest to place her in a hospital while they made a plan to address her challenges, which included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/disorders\/anxiety\/\">anxiety<\/a>\u00a0and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/preventing-youth-suicide-strategies-that-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*This post, by Grafton&#8217;s Director of Youth Shelter Services, Rachael Reeder, was originally published on Psych Central. American children are taking their own lives at an alarming rate. 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