The website has comprehensive information on the emotional concerns, symptoms, and disorders that commonly impact teens (divorce, bullying, body image, anxiety, depression, and more) - and the evidence-based therapies that can help.

Effective Child Therapy is a resource from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.Worried about a teen’s mental well-being? Here are some online resources to learn more about symptoms, treatment strategies, and how to help. “It wasn’t a big effect, but just somewhat more likely,” King stresses. There were small, temporary reductions in suicidal thoughts among the teens in the treatment group, who were more likely to stick to their follow-up therapy. The results, which were first published in 2009, were modest. Simply put: The adults were getting education and support, so they could better support the teen. In the trial, half of 448 teens who were admitted to a psychiatric hospital for suicidality were asked to select up to four adults in their lives to receive continuing education and suicide prevention. King explained that the paper revisits a clinical trial she and colleagues conducted more than a decade ago. I called up Cheryl King, who’s been studying youth suicide prevention for the past 30 years at the University of Michigan and was the lead author on the new JAMA Psychiatry paper. There’s nothing that’s been scientifically proven to save lives when it comes to suicidal teens, except what they discovered in this paper? In fact, according to the authors of a new paper in JAMA Psychiatry I read recently, “To our knowledge, no other intervention for suicidal adolescents has been associated with reduced mortality.” That line stopped me cold. And the ones that did, well, there’s very limited evidence on what works.

For one, many people who died by suicide never got mental health treatment at all. Researchers have been working for decades on interventions to decrease the rate of suicides among teens (as well as among adults). Just 10 out of 100,000 teens ages 15 through 19 die this way. But don’t be mistaken: Teen suicide is still rare. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among teens after accidents (traffic, poisoning, drownings, etc). Deaths by suicide among teens increased by 33 percent in that time period as well. Between 20, the number of high schoolers who contemplated suicide reportedly increased by 25 percent. Teen suicides have been growing more common, and no one really knows why - or how to stop it.

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