What Experts Know About Youth Suicide Prevention
John Ackerman, PhD, of Nationwide Children’s, is an editor for Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Best Practices and Policy Implications.
Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for youth 10-14 years old in the United States, and the rates among all youth continue to rise.
But behavioral health providers and researchers are learning more about preventing suicide with young people of different backgrounds and in places that makes support more accessible – and experts from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and other organizations have now written and compiled a free book with current insights from the field.
Titled Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Best Practices and Policy Implications, this compilation is meant for busy health care professionals, advocates, and researchers but written in accessible style for anyone who is interested in the subject. The editors are John Ackerman, PhD, of Nationwide Children’s, and Lisa Horowitz, PhD, of the National Institute of Mental Health.
“(I)ndividuals (can) pick a topic and quickly understand what subject matter experts in that field deem to be the most pressing issues with perspective on how to meaningfully advance youth suicide prevention efforts,” write Drs. Ackerman and Horowitz in their introduction.
In a column for Pediatrics Nationwide, the editors explain more about how the book came to be, and why having easy access to its information is important.
Read more here, and download your free copy of the book here.
