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Season 7 | Episode 701 | Length: 27 minutes

This episode explores the complex role the Internet, particularly social media, plays in self-harming and suicide-related behavior; and experts provide advice for families to navigate these alarming trends.

 

 

Patrick and Jackie Kimmel

 

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Additional resources:

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

• Find support if you, or someone who you know, is affected by suicide or suicidal thoughts.
• About suicide – warning signs, statistics, and treatment.
• National Fact Sheet
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – More Than Sad
• AFSP More Than Sad videos
• Campus Toolkit - Seize the Awkward
• Social Media Assets – Seize the Awkward

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

• Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Glossary

Center for Disease Control and Prevention – Vital Signs: Suicide rising across the US

• CDC Violence Prevention- Fast Facts – Suicide ideation
• CDC Preventing Suicide PDF Fact Sheet
• Additional resources-Suicide / Violence Prevention

Centers for Disease Control – LGBTQ Resource - Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12

NCBI – LGBTQ – Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in white and Latino lesbian, gay, and bisexual young adults.

JAMA Pediatrics – Sexual Minority Youth at Increased Risk for Suicide Attempt, With Transgender Youth at Highest Risk

JAMA Pediatrics – Association of Screen Time and Depression in Adolescence

Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide

Suicide Prevention – Youth.gov

American Psychological Association:  Talking to Teens: Suicide Prevention

WebMD – Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High

PBS News Hour – Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest level since 2000

Family Acceptance Project – LGBTQ resource

The Trevor Project - LGBTQ resource and crisis intervention– for LGBTQ youth at risk for suicide

Public Source: Why are young people taking their own lives?

National Institutes of Health (NIH) News in Health – Teen Suicide: Understanding the Risk and Getting Help

We Are Teachers – What Teachers Need to Know About the Rise in Teen Suicide

National Center for Biotechnology Information – Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective

American Psychological Association – Age, Period, and Cohort Trends in Mood Disorder Indicators and Suicide-Related Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Dataset