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Parents often caution their kids against sharing too much information online, weary about how all that data gets used. But one Texas high schooler wants to use that digital footprint to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siddhu Pachipala is a senior at The Woodlands College Park High School, in a suburb outside Houston. He’s been thinking about psychology since seventh grade, when he read \u003cem>Thinking, Fast and Slow \u003c/em>by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about teen suicide, Pachipala saw a role for artificial intelligence in detecting risk before it’s too late. In his view, it takes too long to get kids help when they’re suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/risk-factors-protective-factors-and-warning-signs\">Early warning signs of suicide\u003c/a>, like persistent feelings of hopelessness, changes in mood and sleep patterns, are often missed by loved ones. “So it’s hard to get people spotted,” says Pachipala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a local science fair, he designed an app that uses AI to scan text for signs of suicide risk. He thinks it could, someday, help replace outdated methods of diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our writing patterns can reflect what we’re thinking, but it hasn’t really been extended to this extent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app won him national recognition, a trip to D.C., and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXMGHReRtEY\">a speech on behalf of his peers\u003c/a>. It’s one of many efforts under way to use AI to help young people with their mental health and to better identify when they’re at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts point out that this kind of AI, called natural language processing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ylataus/files/TausczikPennebaker2010.pdf\">has been around since the mid-1990s\u003c/a>. And, it’s not a panacea. “Machine learning is helping us get better. As we get more and more data, we’re able to improve the system,” says Matt Nock, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, who studies self-harm in young people. “But chat bots aren’t going to be the silver bullet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado-based psychologist Nathaan Demers, who oversees mental health websites and apps, says that personalized tools like Pachipala’s could help fill a void. “When you walk into CVS, there’s that blood pressure cuff,” Demers said. “And maybe that’s the first time that someone realizes, ‘Oh, I have high blood pressure. I had no idea.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t seen Pachipala’s app but theorizes that innovations like his raise self-awareness about underlying mental health issues that might otherwise go unrecognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building SuiSensor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61667\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siddhu Pachipala \u003ccite>(Chris Ayers Photography/Society for Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachipala set himself to designing an app that someone could download to take a self-assessment of their suicide risk. They could use their results to advocate for their care needs and get connected with providers. After many late nights spent coding, he had \u003cem>SuiSensor\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using sample data from a medical study, based on journal entries by adults, Pachipala said \u003cem>SuiSensor\u003c/em> predicted suicide risk with 98% accuracy. Although it was only a prototype, the app could also generate a contact list of local clinicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of his senior year of high school, Pachipala entered his research into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/students-win-at-2023-regeneron-science-talent-search/\">Regeneron Science Talent Search\u003c/a>, an 81-year-old national science and math competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, panels of judges grilled him on his knowledge of psychology and general science with questions like: “Explain how pasta boils. … OK, now let’s say we brought that into space. What happens now?” Pachipala recalled. “You walked out of those panels and you were battered and bruised, but, like, better for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed \u003ca href=\"https://hellowoodlands.com/twcps-siddhu-pachipala-named-a-top-winner-in-regeneron-science-talent-search/\">ninth overall\u003c/a> at the competition and took home a $50,000 prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/students-win-more-18-million-2023-regeneron-science-talent\">The judges found that\u003c/a>, “His work suggests that the semantics in an individual’s writing could be correlated with their psychological health and risk of suicide.” While the app is not currently downloadable, Pachipala hopes that, as an undergraduate at MIT, he can continue working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we don’t do that enough: trying to address [suicide intervention] from an innovation perspective,” he said. “I think that we’ve stuck to the status quo for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Current AI mental health applications\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does his invention fit into broader efforts to use AI in mental health? Experts note that there are many such efforts underway, and Matt Nock, for one, expressed concerns about false alarms. He applies \u003ca href=\"https://www.ibm.com/topics/machine-learning\">machine learning\u003c/a> to electronic health records to identify people who are at risk for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of our predictions are false positives,” he said. “Is there a cost there? Does it do harm to tell someone that they’re at risk of suicide when really they’re not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And data privacy expert Elizabeth Laird has concerns about implementing such approaches in schools in particular, given the lack of research. She directs the \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/equity-in-civic-technology-project-faqs/\">Equity in Civic Technology Project\u003c/a> at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging that “we have a mental health crisis and we should be doing whatever we can to prevent students from harming themselves,” she remains skeptical about the lack of “independent evidence that these tools do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this attention on AI comes as youth suicide rates (and risk) are on the rise. Although there’s a lag in the data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/disparities-in-suicide.html\">suicide is the second leading cause of death\u003c/a> for youth and young adults ages 10 to 24 in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts like Pachipala’s fit into a broad range of AI-backed tools available to track youth mental health, accessible to clinicians and nonprofessionals alike. Some schools are using activity monitoring software that scans devices for warning signs of a student doing harm to themselves or others. One concern though, is that once these red flags surface, that information can be used to discipline students rather than support them, “and that that discipline falls along racial lines,” Laird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/report-hidden-harms-the-misleading-promise-of-monitoring-students-online/\">a survey\u003c/a> Laird shared, 70% of teachers whose schools use data-tracking software said it was used to discipline students. Schools can stay within the bounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/ferpa.html#:~:text=The%20Family%20Educational%20Rights%20and,%2C%20or%20post%2Dsecondary%20school.\">student record privacy laws\u003c/a>, but fail to implement safeguards that protect them from unintended consequences, Laird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversation around privacy has shifted from just one of legal compliance to what is actually ethical and right,” she said. She points to survey data that shows \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hidden-Harms-The-Misleading-Promise-of-Monitoring-Students-Online-Research-Report-Final-Accessible.pdf\">nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ students\u003c/a> report they’ve been outed, or know someone who has been outed, as a consequence of activity monitoring software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Nock, the Harvard researcher, recognizes the place of AI in crunching numbers. He uses machine learning technology similar to Pachipala’s to analyze medical records. But he stresses that much more experimentation is needed to vet computational assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this work is really well-intended, trying to use machine learning, artificial intelligence to improve people’s mental health … but unless we do the research, we’re not going to know if this is the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More students and families are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163617428/schools-across-the-country-say-more-students-are-asking-for-mental-health-servic\">turning to schools for mental health support\u003c/a>. Software that scans young peoples’ words, and by extension thoughts, is one approach to taking the pulse on youth mental health. But, it can’t take the place of human interaction, Nock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology is going to help us, we hope, get better at knowing who is at risk and knowing when,” he said. “But people want to see humans; they want to talk to humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=This+high+school+senior%27s+science+project+could+one+day+save+lives&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An 18-year-old from Texas created an app using artificial intelligence that may someday help detect suicide risk.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684635662,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1347},"headData":{"title":"A high school senior's science project could use AI to prevent suicides | KQED","description":"An 18-year-old from Texas created an app using artificial intelligence that may someday help detect suicide risk.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"An 18-year-old from Texas created an app using artificial intelligence that may someday help detect suicide risk.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A high school senior's science project could use AI to prevent suicides","datePublished":"2023-05-21T02:19:03.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-21T02:21:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":"Abē R. 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Parents often caution their kids against sharing too much information online, weary about how all that data gets used. But one Texas high schooler wants to use that digital footprint to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siddhu Pachipala is a senior at The Woodlands College Park High School, in a suburb outside Houston. He’s been thinking about psychology since seventh grade, when he read \u003cem>Thinking, Fast and Slow \u003c/em>by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about teen suicide, Pachipala saw a role for artificial intelligence in detecting risk before it’s too late. In his view, it takes too long to get kids help when they’re suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/risk-factors-protective-factors-and-warning-signs\">Early warning signs of suicide\u003c/a>, like persistent feelings of hopelessness, changes in mood and sleep patterns, are often missed by loved ones. “So it’s hard to get people spotted,” says Pachipala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a local science fair, he designed an app that uses AI to scan text for signs of suicide risk. He thinks it could, someday, help replace outdated methods of diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our writing patterns can reflect what we’re thinking, but it hasn’t really been extended to this extent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app won him national recognition, a trip to D.C., and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXMGHReRtEY\">a speech on behalf of his peers\u003c/a>. It’s one of many efforts under way to use AI to help young people with their mental health and to better identify when they’re at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts point out that this kind of AI, called natural language processing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ylataus/files/TausczikPennebaker2010.pdf\">has been around since the mid-1990s\u003c/a>. And, it’s not a panacea. “Machine learning is helping us get better. As we get more and more data, we’re able to improve the system,” says Matt Nock, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, who studies self-harm in young people. “But chat bots aren’t going to be the silver bullet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado-based psychologist Nathaan Demers, who oversees mental health websites and apps, says that personalized tools like Pachipala’s could help fill a void. “When you walk into CVS, there’s that blood pressure cuff,” Demers said. “And maybe that’s the first time that someone realizes, ‘Oh, I have high blood pressure. I had no idea.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t seen Pachipala’s app but theorizes that innovations like his raise self-awareness about underlying mental health issues that might otherwise go unrecognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building SuiSensor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61667\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/05/pachipala_siddhu_031123_029_ca_cf__custom-88b8678fceb876c366626fd9902ef1d71eaf4ffd.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siddhu Pachipala \u003ccite>(Chris Ayers Photography/Society for Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachipala set himself to designing an app that someone could download to take a self-assessment of their suicide risk. They could use their results to advocate for their care needs and get connected with providers. After many late nights spent coding, he had \u003cem>SuiSensor\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using sample data from a medical study, based on journal entries by adults, Pachipala said \u003cem>SuiSensor\u003c/em> predicted suicide risk with 98% accuracy. Although it was only a prototype, the app could also generate a contact list of local clinicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of his senior year of high school, Pachipala entered his research into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/students-win-at-2023-regeneron-science-talent-search/\">Regeneron Science Talent Search\u003c/a>, an 81-year-old national science and math competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, panels of judges grilled him on his knowledge of psychology and general science with questions like: “Explain how pasta boils. … OK, now let’s say we brought that into space. What happens now?” Pachipala recalled. “You walked out of those panels and you were battered and bruised, but, like, better for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed \u003ca href=\"https://hellowoodlands.com/twcps-siddhu-pachipala-named-a-top-winner-in-regeneron-science-talent-search/\">ninth overall\u003c/a> at the competition and took home a $50,000 prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/students-win-more-18-million-2023-regeneron-science-talent\">The judges found that\u003c/a>, “His work suggests that the semantics in an individual’s writing could be correlated with their psychological health and risk of suicide.” While the app is not currently downloadable, Pachipala hopes that, as an undergraduate at MIT, he can continue working on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we don’t do that enough: trying to address [suicide intervention] from an innovation perspective,” he said. “I think that we’ve stuck to the status quo for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Current AI mental health applications\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does his invention fit into broader efforts to use AI in mental health? Experts note that there are many such efforts underway, and Matt Nock, for one, expressed concerns about false alarms. He applies \u003ca href=\"https://www.ibm.com/topics/machine-learning\">machine learning\u003c/a> to electronic health records to identify people who are at risk for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of our predictions are false positives,” he said. “Is there a cost there? Does it do harm to tell someone that they’re at risk of suicide when really they’re not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And data privacy expert Elizabeth Laird has concerns about implementing such approaches in schools in particular, given the lack of research. She directs the \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/equity-in-civic-technology-project-faqs/\">Equity in Civic Technology Project\u003c/a> at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging that “we have a mental health crisis and we should be doing whatever we can to prevent students from harming themselves,” she remains skeptical about the lack of “independent evidence that these tools do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this attention on AI comes as youth suicide rates (and risk) are on the rise. Although there’s a lag in the data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/disparities-in-suicide.html\">suicide is the second leading cause of death\u003c/a> for youth and young adults ages 10 to 24 in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts like Pachipala’s fit into a broad range of AI-backed tools available to track youth mental health, accessible to clinicians and nonprofessionals alike. Some schools are using activity monitoring software that scans devices for warning signs of a student doing harm to themselves or others. One concern though, is that once these red flags surface, that information can be used to discipline students rather than support them, “and that that discipline falls along racial lines,” Laird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/report-hidden-harms-the-misleading-promise-of-monitoring-students-online/\">a survey\u003c/a> Laird shared, 70% of teachers whose schools use data-tracking software said it was used to discipline students. Schools can stay within the bounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/ferpa.html#:~:text=The%20Family%20Educational%20Rights%20and,%2C%20or%20post%2Dsecondary%20school.\">student record privacy laws\u003c/a>, but fail to implement safeguards that protect them from unintended consequences, Laird said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversation around privacy has shifted from just one of legal compliance to what is actually ethical and right,” she said. She points to survey data that shows \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hidden-Harms-The-Misleading-Promise-of-Monitoring-Students-Online-Research-Report-Final-Accessible.pdf\">nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ students\u003c/a> report they’ve been outed, or know someone who has been outed, as a consequence of activity monitoring software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Nock, the Harvard researcher, recognizes the place of AI in crunching numbers. He uses machine learning technology similar to Pachipala’s to analyze medical records. But he stresses that much more experimentation is needed to vet computational assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this work is really well-intended, trying to use machine learning, artificial intelligence to improve people’s mental health … but unless we do the research, we’re not going to know if this is the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More students and families are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163617428/schools-across-the-country-say-more-students-are-asking-for-mental-health-servic\">turning to schools for mental health support\u003c/a>. Software that scans young peoples’ words, and by extension thoughts, is one approach to taking the pulse on youth mental health. But, it can’t take the place of human interaction, Nock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology is going to help us, we hope, get better at knowing who is at risk and knowing when,” he said. “But people want to see humans; they want to talk to humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=This+high+school+senior%27s+science+project+could+one+day+save+lives&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61665/this-high-school-seniors-science-project-could-use-ai-to-prevent-suicides","authors":["byline_mindshift_61665"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_1023","mindshift_21632","mindshift_21633","mindshift_20865","mindshift_21528","mindshift_21630","mindshift_21631","mindshift_47","mindshift_20884"],"featImg":"mindshift_61666","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61186":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61186","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61186","score":null,"sort":[1678273222000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","title":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health","publishDate":1678273222,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when I was still coaching high school cross country, a teenage girl skipped up to me after practice with a warning: Don’t count on her to race all the time. If her nerves got too intense before races, she might have to bow out in advance. “I have anxiety!” she explained with a nervous grin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">I recalled this episode while reading psychologist and author \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/bio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Damour’s\u003c/a> refreshing new book, \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/books/the-emotional-lives-of-teenagers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents.”\u003c/a> Damour’s voice is forceful but comforting, and she uses it here to drive home her central point: Achieving mental health does not mean a life without unhappiness, anguish, anger, worry or self-doubt. Rather, these painful emotional states are an unavoidable feature of being human, especially for young people buzzing with hormones and adjusting to operatic moods prompted by recent rewiring of their brains. To best help their developing teenagers, parents should work to build their self-esteem and then guide them in learning how to express and manage these feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61194 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Damour \u003ccite>(Downie Photo/Courtesy of Lisa Damour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damour explains how we got to the point of considering unhappiness an aberration from some imaginary blissful norm. To start, advances in antidepressant medications made them safer and more attractive to the masses; she earnestly acknowledges that psychotropic medications improve and sometimes save lives. But prescriptions for Prozac and its medicinal brethren are as ubiquitous today as those for hypertension and cholesterol, making ordinary disappointment seem like a problem in need of a chemical solution. The mental wellness industry, too, \u003ca href=\"https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/industry-research/the-global-wellness-economy-looking-beyond-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth about $131 billion globally\u003c/a>, sells the idea that feeling rotten is avoidable (if you purchase just the right eucalyptus oil or bath bomb). Finally, because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">adolescents are in fact gloomier today than they were just ten years ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s harder for parents and kids to figure out what distinguishes a legitimate mental health crisis from everyday emotional discomfort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this last point, Damour shares the findings of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and psychology professor Jean Twenge who are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6WbDdgnzFHDHPx9HXzR5o/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounding the alarm about youth mental health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 percent of teenagers reported experiencing anxiety, up from 34 percent about ten years ago; 37 percent felt “persistently sad or hopeless”; 16 percent of teenagers said that they’d developed a suicide plan. Those self-reported findings were matched by increases in hospitalizations for self-harm and a surge in the number of completed suicides, mostly since 2012. New \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">findings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released by the CDC in February revealed that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">girls and LGBTQ+ youth especially are floundering\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Whether from what Haidt calls the rise in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61026/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-based childhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” creeping \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">existential despair\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or the effect of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">too little free and unstructured time\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and likely some combination of all these and more — adolescents are struggling today in ways that they weren’t just a decade ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s a conscientious parent to do? “One of the most important things we can do for teenagers is help them distinguish between emotions that are uncomfortable (and) emotions that are unmanageable,” Damour told me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mothers and fathers should help their young children build authentic self-esteem by celebrating kids’ actions and avoiding effusive praise. Encourage girls and boys to be of service to others, not only to interrupt their solipsistic mindset, but also to reinforce their ability to make a difference. Next, urge them to develop an interest that’s unrelated to school or college applications, like cooking or knitting. Indulging an intrinsic interest is protective of kids’ feelings of self-worth. Finally, get going on these pursuits before a child reaches middle school, when even the healthiest child might falter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best thing parents can do after this is help their children learn both to express and regulate their emotions. Articulating painful feelings robs the feelings of their power, and learning how to manage them restores kids’ self-control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To encourage open expression, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listen\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Damour advises. Be curious about your child’s state of mind. Ask your child to be as verbally precise as possible. Then, repeat back what your child says in her moment of sorrow or fear to demonstrate that you genuinely understand. Once they’ve expressed their heartache, try capturing their hurt in a one-sentence summary — like the editor who creates a headline for a story — and show empathy in return. “Listening attentively and then offering empathy shows them that they are doing exactly the right thing when they seek relief by finding a loving listener (that would be us!) and sharing what’s on their mind,” Damour writes. Above all, defy the temptation to jump in with creative solutions, as irresistible as that may seem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the teenager who resists face-to-face conversations, try other ways of inviting communication. Some children will respond to gentle text messages from parents. Others will be more talkative if they’re strapped into the back seat of the car, spared the awkwardness of direct eye contact. And if parents want their teenagers to talk, they might have to be around more often so that it can happen \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/02/21/teen-talks-night-parents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the kids are conversational\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Though they can be mercurial and ornery, teenagers typically like their parents and feel safer when they know where the grown-ups are. Another way to invite emotional expression: Own up to your own mistakes. For example, if you’ve gossiped to a friend about something personal your child has shared with you, and he learns of it, correct your blunder the right way: Apologize for violating his confidence, explain why you did, take responsibility, vow never to blab again, offer to make amends and ask for forgiveness. Because emotional expression is so essential to adolescents’ (and adults’) well-being, parents need to safeguard their kids’ trust. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After they’ve exhausted their efforts to spur expression, parents can help children learn to self-regulate. Suggest a distraction to interrupt unpleasant rumination. Offer them small comforts tailored to their preferences. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check in on their sleep habits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and help them reclaim the eight to ten hours they need. When offering advice, tread lightly: Ask if it’s wanted and approach solutions jointly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some children experiencing protracted and irrational sadness and worry need more than a parent or guardian can provide. “I have so much empathy for parents who are trying to figure out if a meltdown is a sign of typical and expectable stress or a sign of a mental health concern,” Damour said. Adults would be wise to seek professional help if their adolescent’s feelings “don’t add up,” or they can’t manage them constructively, or they resort to risky coping strategies. But remember that zig-zagging, capacious feelings are not something to be avoided or feared. “Distress is part of life, and it certainly comes with the territory for teenagers,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As teens face a worsening mental health crisis, psychologist Lisa Damour advises parents on how to help young people learn to express and regulate emotions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682274038,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1199},"headData":{"title":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health | KQED","description":"As teens face a worsening mental health crisis, psychologist Lisa Damour advises parents on how to help young people learn to express and regulate emotions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health","datePublished":"2023-03-08T11:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-23T18:20:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when I was still coaching high school cross country, a teenage girl skipped up to me after practice with a warning: Don’t count on her to race all the time. If her nerves got too intense before races, she might have to bow out in advance. “I have anxiety!” she explained with a nervous grin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">I recalled this episode while reading psychologist and author \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/bio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Damour’s\u003c/a> refreshing new book, \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/books/the-emotional-lives-of-teenagers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents.”\u003c/a> Damour’s voice is forceful but comforting, and she uses it here to drive home her central point: Achieving mental health does not mean a life without unhappiness, anguish, anger, worry or self-doubt. Rather, these painful emotional states are an unavoidable feature of being human, especially for young people buzzing with hormones and adjusting to operatic moods prompted by recent rewiring of their brains. To best help their developing teenagers, parents should work to build their self-esteem and then guide them in learning how to express and manage these feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61194 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Damour \u003ccite>(Downie Photo/Courtesy of Lisa Damour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damour explains how we got to the point of considering unhappiness an aberration from some imaginary blissful norm. To start, advances in antidepressant medications made them safer and more attractive to the masses; she earnestly acknowledges that psychotropic medications improve and sometimes save lives. But prescriptions for Prozac and its medicinal brethren are as ubiquitous today as those for hypertension and cholesterol, making ordinary disappointment seem like a problem in need of a chemical solution. The mental wellness industry, too, \u003ca href=\"https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/industry-research/the-global-wellness-economy-looking-beyond-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth about $131 billion globally\u003c/a>, sells the idea that feeling rotten is avoidable (if you purchase just the right eucalyptus oil or bath bomb). Finally, because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">adolescents are in fact gloomier today than they were just ten years ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s harder for parents and kids to figure out what distinguishes a legitimate mental health crisis from everyday emotional discomfort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this last point, Damour shares the findings of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and psychology professor Jean Twenge who are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6WbDdgnzFHDHPx9HXzR5o/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounding the alarm about youth mental health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 percent of teenagers reported experiencing anxiety, up from 34 percent about ten years ago; 37 percent felt “persistently sad or hopeless”; 16 percent of teenagers said that they’d developed a suicide plan. Those self-reported findings were matched by increases in hospitalizations for self-harm and a surge in the number of completed suicides, mostly since 2012. New \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">findings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released by the CDC in February revealed that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">girls and LGBTQ+ youth especially are floundering\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Whether from what Haidt calls the rise in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61026/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-based childhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” creeping \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">existential despair\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or the effect of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">too little free and unstructured time\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and likely some combination of all these and more — adolescents are struggling today in ways that they weren’t just a decade ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s a conscientious parent to do? “One of the most important things we can do for teenagers is help them distinguish between emotions that are uncomfortable (and) emotions that are unmanageable,” Damour told me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mothers and fathers should help their young children build authentic self-esteem by celebrating kids’ actions and avoiding effusive praise. Encourage girls and boys to be of service to others, not only to interrupt their solipsistic mindset, but also to reinforce their ability to make a difference. Next, urge them to develop an interest that’s unrelated to school or college applications, like cooking or knitting. Indulging an intrinsic interest is protective of kids’ feelings of self-worth. Finally, get going on these pursuits before a child reaches middle school, when even the healthiest child might falter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best thing parents can do after this is help their children learn both to express and regulate their emotions. Articulating painful feelings robs the feelings of their power, and learning how to manage them restores kids’ self-control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To encourage open expression, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listen\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Damour advises. Be curious about your child’s state of mind. Ask your child to be as verbally precise as possible. Then, repeat back what your child says in her moment of sorrow or fear to demonstrate that you genuinely understand. Once they’ve expressed their heartache, try capturing their hurt in a one-sentence summary — like the editor who creates a headline for a story — and show empathy in return. “Listening attentively and then offering empathy shows them that they are doing exactly the right thing when they seek relief by finding a loving listener (that would be us!) and sharing what’s on their mind,” Damour writes. Above all, defy the temptation to jump in with creative solutions, as irresistible as that may seem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the teenager who resists face-to-face conversations, try other ways of inviting communication. Some children will respond to gentle text messages from parents. Others will be more talkative if they’re strapped into the back seat of the car, spared the awkwardness of direct eye contact. And if parents want their teenagers to talk, they might have to be around more often so that it can happen \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/02/21/teen-talks-night-parents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the kids are conversational\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Though they can be mercurial and ornery, teenagers typically like their parents and feel safer when they know where the grown-ups are. Another way to invite emotional expression: Own up to your own mistakes. For example, if you’ve gossiped to a friend about something personal your child has shared with you, and he learns of it, correct your blunder the right way: Apologize for violating his confidence, explain why you did, take responsibility, vow never to blab again, offer to make amends and ask for forgiveness. Because emotional expression is so essential to adolescents’ (and adults’) well-being, parents need to safeguard their kids’ trust. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After they’ve exhausted their efforts to spur expression, parents can help children learn to self-regulate. Suggest a distraction to interrupt unpleasant rumination. Offer them small comforts tailored to their preferences. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check in on their sleep habits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and help them reclaim the eight to ten hours they need. When offering advice, tread lightly: Ask if it’s wanted and approach solutions jointly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some children experiencing protracted and irrational sadness and worry need more than a parent or guardian can provide. “I have so much empathy for parents who are trying to figure out if a meltdown is a sign of typical and expectable stress or a sign of a mental health concern,” Damour said. Adults would be wise to seek professional help if their adolescent’s feelings “don’t add up,” or they can’t manage them constructively, or they resort to risky coping strategies. But remember that zig-zagging, capacious feelings are not something to be avoided or feared. “Distress is part of life, and it certainly comes with the territory for teenagers,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","authors":["4613"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21345","mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20589","mindshift_21070","mindshift_21157","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20696","mindshift_20884","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61188","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61031":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61031","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61031","score":null,"sort":[1676388927000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","title":"Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says","publishDate":1676388927,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by dialing 9-8-8, or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Adolescent girls across the country are facing record levels of violence, sadness and despair, according to new survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and other non-heterosexual identities also experience high levels of violence and distress, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no question from this data [that] young people are telling us that they are in crisis,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ethierka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Ethier\u003c/a>, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. \"And there is this growing wave of violence and trauma that's affecting young people, especially teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys 9th through 12th graders across the country\u003c/a> about a range of health behaviors and experiences for a report titled, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. On Monday, it released the results from the most recent survey conducted in 2021, along with the trends over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11% of all teens reported facing sexual violence in the past year, 18% of girls and 22% of LGBTQ+ youth reported the same. Among racial and ethnic groups, American Indian or Alaska Native teens were the most likely to have faced sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than one in ten girls had been forced to have sex in their lifetime, says Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is just an overwhelming finding,\" she says. \"So, not surprisingly, we're also seeing that almost 60% of teen girls had depressive symptoms in the past year, which is the highest level in a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one in three girls also reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that 52% of teens identifying as LGBTQ+ experienced poor mental health in the past year, with 1 in 5 saying they had attempted suicide during that period of time. Among racial and ethnic groups Native American teens were the most likely to have attempted suicide in the year before, followed by Black youth, at 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trauma plays a role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's often a history of trauma among teens experiencing a mental health crisis, says\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/7557-vera-feuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Northwell Health in Long Island, NY, who did not participate in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the kids presenting to psychiatric emergency rooms and a lot of the kids presenting with suicidal thoughts do have a background that includes trauma,\" she says, and that trauma often stems from, \"some sort of victimization, sexual victimization, as well as bullying, cyber bullying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are a whole host of social and environmental factors driving the behaviors and mental health problems among teens, especially teen girls, says \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/staff/stephanie-eken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Stephanie Eken\u003c/a>, a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist at \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Behavioral Health\u003c/a> in Wisconsin, which also has a program for adolescent girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those factors, she says, is early puberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls \"are starting puberty early, and we know that hormones certainly start to differentiate issues for females versus males,\" says Eken. \"When we look at research studies, girls, when they start to hit puberty, start to have increasing rates of depression and anxiety. So there are the hormonal factors that we think could play a role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also plays a major role, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that for girls and their social networks, even when they're socializing, they are not socializing in person,\" she says. \"They are socializing through their phone or through some type of device rather than in-person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, adolescents in general, and girls in particular need in-person social contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of it, she adds, has created higher levels of loneliness among teens, even before the pandemic. And loneliness is a well known risk factor for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also exposes girls to all kinds of negative social pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Body type expectations and the images that they're shown with the flood of information that we have available to us has detrimental effects,\" says Eken. \"And they're being exposed to them earlier and earlier in their lives when their brains are not prepared to deal with this information and know what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's also why there's been a dramatic rise in teen girls with eating disorders in recent years, say Eken and Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools can be part of the solution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schools are key, the report suggests, to help teens facing these behavioral and mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are on the front lines of dealing with the mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country,\" says the CDC's Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to a number of things that schools can do to prevent these issues and also to support vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things like making sure teachers are well trained in dealing with the mental health issues that are arising in their classrooms, making sure that there are programs in place to get young people out into their communities to provide service and bringing important community members into schools to meet, to provide mentorship,\" Ethier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also points to the need to have school environments where students feel socially connected, not just to their peers, but also to caring adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of other trusted adults at school is a big part of that,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proven way to protect vulnerable students against despair and suicide is to help them feel like they belong – at school, at home, in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from suicide research that the sense of belongingness and feeling connected is a really, really important factor to consider,\" adds Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teen+girls+and+LGBTQ%2B+youth+plagued+by+violence+and+trauma%2C+survey+says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly one in three girls reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago, according to the CDC survey data.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1676663168,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":980},"headData":{"title":"Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says | KQED","description":"Nearly 1 in 3 girls reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago, according to the CDC survey data.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says","datePublished":"2023-02-14T15:35:27.000Z","dateModified":"2023-02-17T19:46:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprImageCredit":"Radu Bighian","nprByline":"Rhitu Chatterjee","nprImageAgency":"EyeEm via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1156663966","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1156663966&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/13/1156663966/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says?ft=nprml&f=1156663966","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:43:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:36:56 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:43:45 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/02/20230213_atc_teen_girls_in_growing_crisis.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11156690774-af7ff1.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/02/20230213_atc_teen_girls_in_growing_crisis.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by dialing 9-8-8, or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Adolescent girls across the country are facing record levels of violence, sadness and despair, according to new survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and other non-heterosexual identities also experience high levels of violence and distress, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no question from this data [that] young people are telling us that they are in crisis,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ethierka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Ethier\u003c/a>, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. \"And there is this growing wave of violence and trauma that's affecting young people, especially teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys 9th through 12th graders across the country\u003c/a> about a range of health behaviors and experiences for a report titled, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. On Monday, it released the results from the most recent survey conducted in 2021, along with the trends over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11% of all teens reported facing sexual violence in the past year, 18% of girls and 22% of LGBTQ+ youth reported the same. Among racial and ethnic groups, American Indian or Alaska Native teens were the most likely to have faced sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than one in ten girls had been forced to have sex in their lifetime, says Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is just an overwhelming finding,\" she says. \"So, not surprisingly, we're also seeing that almost 60% of teen girls had depressive symptoms in the past year, which is the highest level in a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one in three girls also reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that 52% of teens identifying as LGBTQ+ experienced poor mental health in the past year, with 1 in 5 saying they had attempted suicide during that period of time. Among racial and ethnic groups Native American teens were the most likely to have attempted suicide in the year before, followed by Black youth, at 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trauma plays a role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's often a history of trauma among teens experiencing a mental health crisis, says\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/7557-vera-feuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Northwell Health in Long Island, NY, who did not participate in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the kids presenting to psychiatric emergency rooms and a lot of the kids presenting with suicidal thoughts do have a background that includes trauma,\" she says, and that trauma often stems from, \"some sort of victimization, sexual victimization, as well as bullying, cyber bullying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are a whole host of social and environmental factors driving the behaviors and mental health problems among teens, especially teen girls, says \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/staff/stephanie-eken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Stephanie Eken\u003c/a>, a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist at \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Behavioral Health\u003c/a> in Wisconsin, which also has a program for adolescent girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those factors, she says, is early puberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls \"are starting puberty early, and we know that hormones certainly start to differentiate issues for females versus males,\" says Eken. \"When we look at research studies, girls, when they start to hit puberty, start to have increasing rates of depression and anxiety. So there are the hormonal factors that we think could play a role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also plays a major role, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that for girls and their social networks, even when they're socializing, they are not socializing in person,\" she says. \"They are socializing through their phone or through some type of device rather than in-person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, adolescents in general, and girls in particular need in-person social contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of it, she adds, has created higher levels of loneliness among teens, even before the pandemic. And loneliness is a well known risk factor for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also exposes girls to all kinds of negative social pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Body type expectations and the images that they're shown with the flood of information that we have available to us has detrimental effects,\" says Eken. \"And they're being exposed to them earlier and earlier in their lives when their brains are not prepared to deal with this information and know what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's also why there's been a dramatic rise in teen girls with eating disorders in recent years, say Eken and Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools can be part of the solution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schools are key, the report suggests, to help teens facing these behavioral and mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are on the front lines of dealing with the mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country,\" says the CDC's Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to a number of things that schools can do to prevent these issues and also to support vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things like making sure teachers are well trained in dealing with the mental health issues that are arising in their classrooms, making sure that there are programs in place to get young people out into their communities to provide service and bringing important community members into schools to meet, to provide mentorship,\" Ethier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also points to the need to have school environments where students feel socially connected, not just to their peers, but also to caring adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of other trusted adults at school is a big part of that,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proven way to protect vulnerable students against despair and suicide is to help them feel like they belong – at school, at home, in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from suicide research that the sense of belongingness and feeling connected is a really, really important factor to consider,\" adds Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teen+girls+and+LGBTQ%2B+youth+plagued+by+violence+and+trauma%2C+survey+says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","authors":["byline_mindshift_61031"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280","mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21556","mindshift_21070","mindshift_20825","mindshift_21339","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20884","mindshift_21159","mindshift_1038","mindshift_21557"],"featImg":"mindshift_61032","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57338":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57338","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57338","score":null,"sort":[1612338173000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"react-calmly-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide","title":"React Calmly, Listen, Offer Hope: How To Help A Child At Risk Of Suicide","publishDate":1612338173,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">\u003cem>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at 1-800-273-8255 (en español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was over a decade ago when \u003ca href=\"https://ilalliance.org/about/staff-board/\">Regina Crider\u003c/a>'s daughter first attempted suicide at age 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a mom, the thought of losing your child to suicide is overwhelming,\" says Crider, who is the founder and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ilalliance.org/about/who-we-serve/\">Youth and Family Alliance\u003c/a>, a support group for families of youth with mental illness in Rantoul, Ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crider was upset and confused and felt that she had failed as a mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like maybe I missed the signs,\" she says. \"Because I work with families, why didn't I see it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter survived the attempt, but the fear of losing her kicked Crider into action. \"I needed to understand why and what I could do [to help her],\" she says, \"because I didn't want to come home to her gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That started her years-long journey into figuring out how best to help her daughter with her mental health struggles — a journey that hasn't ended for the family but has gotten easier over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the mental health of kids, more families are dealing with their children feeling anxious and depressed and thinking about and even attempting suicide. But mental health professionals say that suicide is preventable and that parents and family members can play an important role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard work that requires parents to listen to their children, acknowledge their struggles and help them find a way out of their darkness. And in the long run, it calls for creating a home environment where kids feel safe sharing their emotional lives and where families solve problems together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some specific things that parents or a family member can do to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>1. Get support for yourself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This could be a long and difficult journey, so parents need to have emotional support themselves, Crider says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's a friend's house that maybe they can go to if they need to have a meltdown, to release all of that,\" says Crider. \"They need to be able to talk about this, even if it's going to therapy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was dealing with her daughter's suicidal behavior, Crider says she found support in her sister and her staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reann, a mother of two kids in Illinois, sought therapy for herself so she could better help her daughter when she started to struggle with anxiety and self-harm last year. (NPR is using only her middle name to protect her and her daughter's privacy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Definitely seeing a therapist really helped process just the pandemic anxiety in general,\" she says. \"And then [it] gave me a way to feel like I wasn't screwing everything up with what was going on with my daughter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening up about what's going on is the key to finding resources to help your child, says Dr. Richard Martini, a child psychiatrist at the University of Utah. \"Parents need to feel comfortable reaching out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crider says peer counseling groups like her own are also a good source of support and education for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance on Mental Illness is a\u003ca href=\"https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/Support-Groups/NAMI-Family-Support-Group\"> good place to find support groups\u003c/a> in your community or region. The American Association of Suicidology also has a \u003ca href=\"https://suicidology.org/resources/support-groups/\">directory of support groups\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://save.org/\">Suicide Awareness Voices of Education\u003c/a> has a \u003ca href=\"https://save.org/product/parents-as-partners/\">guide on how parents can be partners\u003c/a> for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2. When a child shares they're in crisis, react calmly and be accepting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It can be hard for a parent to understand why their child is considering suicide — even so, parents need to resist reacting with shock or skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a parent, the first thing you think about is 'you have a place to stay, you have food, you have clothing, we love you,' \" says Crider. \"What could possibly be the issue?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But someone who is feeling suicidal or depressed is already overwhelmed and may be unable to see a way out of their pain and problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of getting upset, parents should respond calmly and \"put their game face on,\" says Megan Hilton, a senior at Ithaca College, who has struggled with depression and anxiety and is a survivor of suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I've come to my parents, their reactions have been way over the top,\" says Hilton. \"And I've felt like I'm responsible for their emotions now. It just adds a lot more pressure to things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton attributes a great deal of her recovery to her older sister's support, precisely because she was not phased when Hilton was in moments of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should also \"really try to listen to what your kid is saying,\" says Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first told her father she was depressed, Hilton remembers him telling her to \"buck up, wipe it off, you're fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To somebody who's genuinely depressed, [who] is really not able to get it together, it is a very difficult thing to hear from a parent,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/psychiatry/dr-vera-feuer-md-11351332\">Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child psychiatrist at Northwell Health in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who are struggling need their parents to tell them \"that the feelings are valid and that these struggles are real,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to do that is by asking more questions. \"Parents should ask, 'Tell me more. What is it that you're having a hard time with?' \" suggests Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they aren't comfortable sharing with you, Feuer suggests you ask if there's someone else whom they'd rather talk to, like another relative, a teacher or a school counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>3. Help problem-solve and find reasons to hope \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your child confides in you about their struggles, offer them hope and reassurance, says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As psychologist Ursula Whiteside \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/20/707686101/how-to-help-someone-at-risk-of-suicide\">told NPR\u003c/a>, some useful things to say are: \"I know how strong you are. I've seen you get through hard things. I think we can get through this together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feuer says it's important for your child to know that you think there are solutions to whatever they are grappling with. She suggests using language like: \"We'll go and get whatever help you need so that you can feel better and you can be your best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton cautions that not everyone needs the same thing when they're feeling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times, people try to comfort or fix things the way that they would want it,\" she says. \"Like if you're feeling really depressed and isolated, some people might be like, 'Well, what gets me out of a depression is to go exercise and go for a run.' And it might not be someone's thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she suggests, ask them what they need and support them in getting that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>4. Teach them a vocabulary for sharing their feelings — and model sharing your own\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kids who are struggling emotionally need help identifying their emotions and what's causing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is \"where you begin to do the work and start to heal around things,\" says Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was younger, I would just get so stuck on the initial 'I feel so awful' or 'I'm feeling this immense emotion right now,' \" she says. \"And I couldn't get what's behind it. What is causing this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that this ambiguity used to make her feel helpless. But in therapy, she learned the vocabulary to identify her specific emotions, like anger or sadness, and explore what was causing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more you do it, the better that you get,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents can lead by example, says Feuer, \"by labeling and discussing our own feelings and our own struggles and really modeling for our kids how we talk about [emotions], how we cope in healthy ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is especially important during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's OK for you to sit down with your kids and say, 'This is a very stressful time. We're all going through something. But we're a family. We love each other,' \" suggests Crider. \"We encourage there to be open communication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having conversations like these can help kids feel safe about opening up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the feeling of acceptance, it's the feeling of being supportive, it's the feeling of being heard, it's the feeling of 'our family is working together,' \" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that family connection alone can buffer your child against stress, which is particularly important right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>5. Seek professional help, starting with your pediatrician\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Navigating the mental health care system can be daunting, especially if you have never done it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need immediate support for a child's crisis, call the \u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a>. You can talk to a trained counselor about your child's symptoms and be connected with local resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another good place to start is your pediatrician's office, says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairfaxpediatrics.com/providers/sandy-chung/\">Sandy Chung\u003c/a>, the medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vmap.org/\">Virginia Mental Health Access Program\u003c/a>, which trains and supports pediatricians to provide mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are similar programs in more than 30 states around the United States. So your pediatrician may be able to treat your child themselves or at least refer you to the right person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It may be going to the emergency room if your child is in crisis,\" says Chung. \"It may be referring to a child psychiatrist, if there's one in your area. ... So your pediatrician will know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also look for a therapist yourself using the \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists\">online directory at Psychology Today\u003c/a>, suggests Reann. That's how she found a therapist for her daughter last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>6. Educate yourself and stay involved in your child's treatment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A parent's job doesn't end with finding their child a therapist; they have to stay involved in that process, inform themselves along the way and advocate for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Crider's daughter was 14, she was diagnosed with autism and severe anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they had the diagnosis, Crider learned more about autism and how it was affecting her daughter's emotional and social life. She finally understood why school had been such a source of stress and anxiety for the girl, who she says \"had a hard time socializing with peers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What also helped Crider's own education was going to therapy with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw the same therapist,\" she says. \"The therapist would talk with her, then she would talk to me and then she would share with me what was appropriate in therapy, how to support [her].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, she learned about her daughter's triggers — her main one was school — and she was able to better advocate for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really began to work more closely with the school to help her to feel like she can come to the school and be in a safe space, not being judged or [criticized] by students or teachers,\" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to find a therapist willing to work with the parents, says Reann. Her daughter's therapist spends some time at the end of each session explaining to Reann what her daughter is struggling with and gives Reann tips on how she can best support her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>7. Remove dangers from the home environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Suicidal thoughts can span a range of severity. Occasional passing thoughts are common and don't necessarily pose an immediate risk to life. But more persistent thoughts that lead to someone making a plan and thinking about means puts that person at higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Find more advice on how to assess your loved one's risk level \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/20/707686101/how-to-help-someone-at-risk-of-suicide\">in this story\u003c/a>. And if you're worried your child is at high risk, call the \u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a> for help.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your child has a specific suicide plan, prioritize removing the means from your home, say suicide prevention experts. It is one of the easiest and most well-proven ways to prevent suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the time, thoughts about suicide or ending one's life come as a wave,\" says Feuer. \"And then if you have nothing to hurt yourself with, the wave passes and you feel better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guns and other weapons at home should be removed or safely stored, she says. And \"medications — over the counter and prescription — should be out of reach and locked up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't need to do this discreetly, she says. Talk openly with your child about what you're doing and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can tell them, \" 'We're doing all of these things because for the time being, you're really struggling and we understand that it's hard,' \" says Feuer. \"Adolescents really respond well to honestly discussing with them what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>8. Learn the early warning signs of a crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Look for sudden changes in behavior and mood, and listen for language that suggests they're thinking about killing themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, behavior changes such as withdrawing from social activities, sleeping too much or too little, and drug use are among signs to watch for. (See the\u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/risk-factors-and-warning-signs\"> AFSP's full list here\u003c/a>.) Watch for irritability or anger. They are signs of depression too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pay attention to how they're doing at school, suggests Martini, the University of Utah child psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most kids want to do reasonably well in school,\" he says. \"I think particularly when they fall far behind, then they can easily get into feelings of hopelessness and helplessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crider says that over the years, she and her daughter have learned to recognize the earliest signs of trouble bubbling up \u003cem>before\u003c/em> it becomes a crisis — what she describes as \"the rumbling stage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can say during that time, 'Are you using your coping skills? Can we identify what's stressing you, what's challenging you?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter's coping skills include writing, singing, listening to music and going for walks. Those things \"calm her down, bring her joy, take her away from whatever negative space she's in,\" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>9. Make room for family fun time \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Helping kids with mental health struggles doesn't have to be all serious. It's just as important to make time regularly to have fun as a family, especially during stressful times like right now, say parents and mental health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's watching a movie, cooking or baking together, going for a hike or doing any other activity, family fun times are good for several reasons, says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sduffymd\">Susan Duffy\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Brown University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, having fun together helps everyone destress, which, at a time like this pandemic, helps everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \"it's allowing a positive interaction between a kid and a parent, instead of arguing over schoolwork,\" says Duffy. \"It's reinforcing a bond between a parent and a child, which right now is more important than actually completing a lesson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reann says her family started doing regular gymnastics nights during the pandemic. \"We would do movement challenges, like who can do the longest handstand or silly walks,\" she says. \"Something fun, something totally ridiculous. It gave them something to look forward to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These activities also create natural opportunities to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the reason that we're seeing an increased number of kids with suicidal ideations, it's a symptom of underlying anxiety and depression and hopelessness,\" says Duffy. \"So by having conversations that are about something else, that leads to further conversation about 'What are the stressors? What's bothering you? What's going on in your life?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can help parents gain more insight into their child's life and mind and also do something we mentioned earlier — create a safe space for kids to share their struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Christine Herman of member station WILL contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Make+Space%2C+Listen%2C+Offer+Hope%3A+How+To+Help+A+Child+At+Risk+Of+Suicide&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If a young person says they want to end their life, how do you help? First, don't panic. Suicide is preventable. Here's advice for helping young people in crisis, from people who've lived through it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1612341896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":86,"wordCount":2689},"headData":{"title":"React Calmly, Listen, Offer Hope: How To Help A Child At Risk Of Suicide - MindShift","description":"If a young person says they want to end their life, how do you help? First, don't panic. Suicide is preventable. 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But mental health professionals say that suicide is preventable and that parents and family members can play an important role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard work that requires parents to listen to their children, acknowledge their struggles and help them find a way out of their darkness. And in the long run, it calls for creating a home environment where kids feel safe sharing their emotional lives and where families solve problems together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some specific things that parents or a family member can do to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>1. Get support for yourself\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This could be a long and difficult journey, so parents need to have emotional support themselves, Crider says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's a friend's house that maybe they can go to if they need to have a meltdown, to release all of that,\" says Crider. \"They need to be able to talk about this, even if it's going to therapy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was dealing with her daughter's suicidal behavior, Crider says she found support in her sister and her staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reann, a mother of two kids in Illinois, sought therapy for herself so she could better help her daughter when she started to struggle with anxiety and self-harm last year. (NPR is using only her middle name to protect her and her daughter's privacy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Definitely seeing a therapist really helped process just the pandemic anxiety in general,\" she says. \"And then [it] gave me a way to feel like I wasn't screwing everything up with what was going on with my daughter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening up about what's going on is the key to finding resources to help your child, says Dr. Richard Martini, a child psychiatrist at the University of Utah. \"Parents need to feel comfortable reaching out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crider says peer counseling groups like her own are also a good source of support and education for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance on Mental Illness is a\u003ca href=\"https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/Support-Groups/NAMI-Family-Support-Group\"> good place to find support groups\u003c/a> in your community or region. The American Association of Suicidology also has a \u003ca href=\"https://suicidology.org/resources/support-groups/\">directory of support groups\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://save.org/\">Suicide Awareness Voices of Education\u003c/a> has a \u003ca href=\"https://save.org/product/parents-as-partners/\">guide on how parents can be partners\u003c/a> for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>2. When a child shares they're in crisis, react calmly and be accepting\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It can be hard for a parent to understand why their child is considering suicide — even so, parents need to resist reacting with shock or skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a parent, the first thing you think about is 'you have a place to stay, you have food, you have clothing, we love you,' \" says Crider. \"What could possibly be the issue?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But someone who is feeling suicidal or depressed is already overwhelmed and may be unable to see a way out of their pain and problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of getting upset, parents should respond calmly and \"put their game face on,\" says Megan Hilton, a senior at Ithaca College, who has struggled with depression and anxiety and is a survivor of suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I've come to my parents, their reactions have been way over the top,\" says Hilton. \"And I've felt like I'm responsible for their emotions now. It just adds a lot more pressure to things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton attributes a great deal of her recovery to her older sister's support, precisely because she was not phased when Hilton was in moments of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should also \"really try to listen to what your kid is saying,\" says Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first told her father she was depressed, Hilton remembers him telling her to \"buck up, wipe it off, you're fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To somebody who's genuinely depressed, [who] is really not able to get it together, it is a very difficult thing to hear from a parent,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/psychiatry/dr-vera-feuer-md-11351332\">Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child psychiatrist at Northwell Health in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who are struggling need their parents to tell them \"that the feelings are valid and that these struggles are real,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to do that is by asking more questions. \"Parents should ask, 'Tell me more. What is it that you're having a hard time with?' \" suggests Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they aren't comfortable sharing with you, Feuer suggests you ask if there's someone else whom they'd rather talk to, like another relative, a teacher or a school counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>3. Help problem-solve and find reasons to hope \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your child confides in you about their struggles, offer them hope and reassurance, says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As psychologist Ursula Whiteside \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/20/707686101/how-to-help-someone-at-risk-of-suicide\">told NPR\u003c/a>, some useful things to say are: \"I know how strong you are. I've seen you get through hard things. I think we can get through this together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feuer says it's important for your child to know that you think there are solutions to whatever they are grappling with. She suggests using language like: \"We'll go and get whatever help you need so that you can feel better and you can be your best.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton cautions that not everyone needs the same thing when they're feeling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of times, people try to comfort or fix things the way that they would want it,\" she says. \"Like if you're feeling really depressed and isolated, some people might be like, 'Well, what gets me out of a depression is to go exercise and go for a run.' And it might not be someone's thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she suggests, ask them what they need and support them in getting that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>4. Teach them a vocabulary for sharing their feelings — and model sharing your own\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kids who are struggling emotionally need help identifying their emotions and what's causing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is \"where you begin to do the work and start to heal around things,\" says Hilton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was younger, I would just get so stuck on the initial 'I feel so awful' or 'I'm feeling this immense emotion right now,' \" she says. \"And I couldn't get what's behind it. What is causing this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that this ambiguity used to make her feel helpless. But in therapy, she learned the vocabulary to identify her specific emotions, like anger or sadness, and explore what was causing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more you do it, the better that you get,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents can lead by example, says Feuer, \"by labeling and discussing our own feelings and our own struggles and really modeling for our kids how we talk about [emotions], how we cope in healthy ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is especially important during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's OK for you to sit down with your kids and say, 'This is a very stressful time. We're all going through something. But we're a family. We love each other,' \" suggests Crider. \"We encourage there to be open communication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having conversations like these can help kids feel safe about opening up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the feeling of acceptance, it's the feeling of being supportive, it's the feeling of being heard, it's the feeling of 'our family is working together,' \" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that family connection alone can buffer your child against stress, which is particularly important right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>5. Seek professional help, starting with your pediatrician\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Navigating the mental health care system can be daunting, especially if you have never done it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need immediate support for a child's crisis, call the \u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a>. You can talk to a trained counselor about your child's symptoms and be connected with local resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another good place to start is your pediatrician's office, says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fairfaxpediatrics.com/providers/sandy-chung/\">Sandy Chung\u003c/a>, the medical director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vmap.org/\">Virginia Mental Health Access Program\u003c/a>, which trains and supports pediatricians to provide mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are similar programs in more than 30 states around the United States. So your pediatrician may be able to treat your child themselves or at least refer you to the right person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It may be going to the emergency room if your child is in crisis,\" says Chung. \"It may be referring to a child psychiatrist, if there's one in your area. ... So your pediatrician will know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also look for a therapist yourself using the \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists\">online directory at Psychology Today\u003c/a>, suggests Reann. That's how she found a therapist for her daughter last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>6. Educate yourself and stay involved in your child's treatment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A parent's job doesn't end with finding their child a therapist; they have to stay involved in that process, inform themselves along the way and advocate for their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Crider's daughter was 14, she was diagnosed with autism and severe anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they had the diagnosis, Crider learned more about autism and how it was affecting her daughter's emotional and social life. She finally understood why school had been such a source of stress and anxiety for the girl, who she says \"had a hard time socializing with peers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What also helped Crider's own education was going to therapy with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw the same therapist,\" she says. \"The therapist would talk with her, then she would talk to me and then she would share with me what was appropriate in therapy, how to support [her].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, she learned about her daughter's triggers — her main one was school — and she was able to better advocate for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really began to work more closely with the school to help her to feel like she can come to the school and be in a safe space, not being judged or [criticized] by students or teachers,\" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to find a therapist willing to work with the parents, says Reann. Her daughter's therapist spends some time at the end of each session explaining to Reann what her daughter is struggling with and gives Reann tips on how she can best support her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>7. Remove dangers from the home environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Suicidal thoughts can span a range of severity. Occasional passing thoughts are common and don't necessarily pose an immediate risk to life. But more persistent thoughts that lead to someone making a plan and thinking about means puts that person at higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Find more advice on how to assess your loved one's risk level \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/20/707686101/how-to-help-someone-at-risk-of-suicide\">in this story\u003c/a>. And if you're worried your child is at high risk, call the \u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a> for help.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your child has a specific suicide plan, prioritize removing the means from your home, say suicide prevention experts. It is one of the easiest and most well-proven ways to prevent suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the time, thoughts about suicide or ending one's life come as a wave,\" says Feuer. \"And then if you have nothing to hurt yourself with, the wave passes and you feel better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guns and other weapons at home should be removed or safely stored, she says. And \"medications — over the counter and prescription — should be out of reach and locked up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't need to do this discreetly, she says. Talk openly with your child about what you're doing and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can tell them, \" 'We're doing all of these things because for the time being, you're really struggling and we understand that it's hard,' \" says Feuer. \"Adolescents really respond well to honestly discussing with them what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>8. Learn the early warning signs of a crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Look for sudden changes in behavior and mood, and listen for language that suggests they're thinking about killing themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, behavior changes such as withdrawing from social activities, sleeping too much or too little, and drug use are among signs to watch for. (See the\u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/risk-factors-and-warning-signs\"> AFSP's full list here\u003c/a>.) Watch for irritability or anger. They are signs of depression too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pay attention to how they're doing at school, suggests Martini, the University of Utah child psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most kids want to do reasonably well in school,\" he says. \"I think particularly when they fall far behind, then they can easily get into feelings of hopelessness and helplessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crider says that over the years, she and her daughter have learned to recognize the earliest signs of trouble bubbling up \u003cem>before\u003c/em> it becomes a crisis — what she describes as \"the rumbling stage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can say during that time, 'Are you using your coping skills? Can we identify what's stressing you, what's challenging you?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter's coping skills include writing, singing, listening to music and going for walks. Those things \"calm her down, bring her joy, take her away from whatever negative space she's in,\" says Crider.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>9. Make room for family fun time \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Helping kids with mental health struggles doesn't have to be all serious. It's just as important to make time regularly to have fun as a family, especially during stressful times like right now, say parents and mental health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's watching a movie, cooking or baking together, going for a hike or doing any other activity, family fun times are good for several reasons, says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sduffymd\">Susan Duffy\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Brown University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, having fun together helps everyone destress, which, at a time like this pandemic, helps everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \"it's allowing a positive interaction between a kid and a parent, instead of arguing over schoolwork,\" says Duffy. \"It's reinforcing a bond between a parent and a child, which right now is more important than actually completing a lesson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reann says her family started doing regular gymnastics nights during the pandemic. \"We would do movement challenges, like who can do the longest handstand or silly walks,\" she says. \"Something fun, something totally ridiculous. It gave them something to look forward to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These activities also create natural opportunities to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the reason that we're seeing an increased number of kids with suicidal ideations, it's a symptom of underlying anxiety and depression and hopelessness,\" says Duffy. \"So by having conversations that are about something else, that leads to further conversation about 'What are the stressors? What's bothering you? What's going on in your life?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can help parents gain more insight into their child's life and mind and also do something we mentioned earlier — create a safe space for kids to share their struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Christine Herman of member station WILL contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Make+Space%2C+Listen%2C+Offer+Hope%3A+How+To+Help+A+Child+At+Risk+Of+Suicide&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57338/react-calmly-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide","authors":["byline_mindshift_57338"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343","mindshift_20865","mindshift_21359","mindshift_943","mindshift_20884"],"featImg":"mindshift_57339","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57343":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57343","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57343","score":null,"sort":[1612337033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"child-psychiatrists-warn-that-the-pandemic-may-be-driving-up-kids-suicide-risk","title":"Child Psychiatrists Warn That The Pandemic May Be Driving Up Kids' Suicide Risk","publishDate":1612337033,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>For ways to help kids at risk, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962185779/make-space-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide\">\u003cem>read Part 2 of this story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">\u003cem>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at 1-800-273-8255 (en español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Orr was almost done with his high school coursework when the governor of Nevada ordered a statewide shutdown of nonessential businesses on March 17, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was looking forward to all of the senior activities, prom and graduation,\" says his mother, Pamela Orr. But all he got was a \"mini [graduation] ceremony,\" with only a handful of students walking, wearing masks and at a distance from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the most we could do because of COVID,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony graduated with honors as he had planned to, wearing a white robe and cap and an advanced honors sash, says Pamela. But he decided against going to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now ... it's all online, and you just lose the whole college experience,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he got a job working in construction. His parents thought he was doing fine. \"He seemed happy to us,\" says Pamela. \"He seemed happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in August of last year, Anthony died by suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pamela and her husband, Marc, struggle to come to terms with their loss, his school district in Las Vegas is trying to come to grips with the troubling statistic his death is part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was one of 19 students who has died by suicide in the district since the shutdown last March. Thirteen of those deaths occurred since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a sense of urgency,\" says Jesus Jara, the superintendent of the Clark County School District. \"You know, we have a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suicide is complex, involving layers of risk factors, including biological and environmental ones. And it's hard to know the exact factors involved in the deaths of these 19 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sudden rise in deaths has school district officials worried that the coronavirus pandemic may have played a role. And educators and mental health care providers in other parts of the United States have the same concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, many suicidal children have been showing up in hospital emergency departments, and more kids are needing in-patient care after serious suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Across the country, we're hearing that there are increased numbers of serious suicidal attempts and suicidal deaths,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sduffymd\">Susan Duffy\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Brown University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>, between April and October 2020, hospital emergency departments saw a rise in the share of total visits that were from kids for mental health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there are no nationwide numbers on suicide deaths in 2020 yet, and researchers have yet to clearly link recent suicides to the pandemic. Yet on the ground, there's growing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with providers at hospitals in seven states across the country, and all of them reported a similar trend: More suicidal children are coming to their hospitals — in worse mental states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kids that we are seeing now in the emergency department are really at the stage of maybe even having tried or attempted or have a detailed plan,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/psychiatry/dr-vera-feuer-md-11351332\">Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, director of pediatric emergency psychiatry at Cohen Children's Medical Center of Northwell Health in New York. \"And we're admitting to the hospital more kids than usual because of how unwell they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has seen a slight increase in 10-to-11-year-olds attempting, but the majority of kids she sees are teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places are seeing a rise in 2020 numbers compared with 2019 as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of kids with suicide attempts coming to the emergency room at Children's Hospital Oakland, in California, in the fall of 2020 was double the number in the fall of 2019, says \u003ca href=\"https://rocketreach.co/marisol-romero-email_107721118\">Marisol Cruz Romero\u003c/a>, a psychologist and the coordinator for the hospital's behavioral emergency response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, the number of children and teens hospitalized after suicide attempts went up from 67 in 2019 to 108 in 2020. And October 2020 saw a 250% increase in these numbers over the previous October, says \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/13218/blake-hillary\">Hillary Blake\u003c/a>, a pediatric psychologist at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrists and other doctors who work with children say the pandemic has created a perfect storm of stressors for kids, increasing the risk of suicide for many. It has exacerbated an ongoing children's mental health crisis — suicide rates had already been going up for almost a decade among children and youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems brought on by the pandemic, they say, only highlight the weaknesses in the mental health safety net for children — and point to an urgent need for new solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The stories that we hear day by day in the emergency department really speak to us about the level of difficulties, the layers of traumas and the real problems that families are facing,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suicide can be prevented, and family members can play a role in keeping kids well. For ways to help kids at risk, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962185779/make-space-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide\">\u003cem>read Part 2 of this story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loss of critical in-person support services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many young people, like Anthony Orr, have no diagnosis or known history of mental illness when they start struggling with thoughts of suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the children who are most vulnerable right now, says Duffy, are the ones with underlying physical or mental illness, because the pandemic has disrupted in-person services they relied on in communities and at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have difficulties with their mood or difficulties with learning or socialization or medical issues,\" says Feuer. \"And now you have other layers of difficulties on top of that. These are the kids we see in real hopeless moments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, many of these children were \"relatively stable in the community with outpatient resources,\" says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Duffy saw a 13-year-old in her ER recently who had underlying anxiety and depression. The at-home and in-school services she relied on had been suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without those supports, her mental health worsened and she started to fall behind at school, says Duffy. The girl turned to self-harm and eventually attempted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was her [older] teenage sister who found her in the bathroom and who called their mother, who had to leave work,\" says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feuer recalls seeing a 14-year-old last fall who began to struggle at school after developing a medical issue that hadn't been properly diagnosed because of pandemic-related delays in care. He was in constant pain and couldn't focus on schoolwork, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, the pandemic had taken away his access to sports, \"which was his world and life,\" says Feuer. \"And then he looks at you and says, 'What's the point? What do I have to look forward to? You tell me, what do I have to be hopeful about?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Falling off the radar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another layer of risk right now is that virtual schooling has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/20/828026185/school-counselors-have-a-message-for-kids-it-s-ok-to-not-be-ok\">made it much harder\u003c/a> for teachers and school counselors to identify and help students who are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/02/suicide-nv-1_enl-e04172b859840f437c7ca766192b14743fc4a53a-e1612342060508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Neely is a counselor at Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas. Neely lost one of her favorite students to suicide last May, just two weeks before graduation. \u003ccite>(Joe Buglewicz for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Nevada shut down last March and the Clark County School District switched to virtual learning, Colleen Neely, a counselor at Shadow Ridge High School, on the outskirts of Las Vegas, tried her best to stay connected with her students by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn't as easy as being in the school together, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are just extra barriers,\" says Neely. \"We're not there just in passing, or they can't go to their teacher and be like, 'Hey, I want to see my counselor.' They can't stop in at lunch. They have to make that effort with an email or clicking on a computer to make an appointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Neely's supervisor called her to give her the news that one of her favorite students had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a smart ... shy kind of kid,\" says Neely. \"Very kind, polite and respectful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was used to seeing him every day as he would stop by her office to check in. She says he had been homeless for a while and had some emotional struggles too. The school had eventually found him a family to live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he'd been doing really well when the school switched to virtual learning, says Neely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was passing all of his classes, going to earn the highest-level diploma that we offer at our school. So he was in a really good place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was devastated to hear that he'd taken his own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd just sent him an email, telling him how proud I was of him,\" Neely says. \"And that he was almost there. And the next phase of his life was going to start.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neely doesn't know the exact circumstances that led to his death. But she knew he was at risk because of his past struggles. And she wonders if someone could have helped him if the pandemic hadn't upended everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of me will always question, if we had been in the building — and if he had been able to just see another adult, his friends, possibly talk to me — if things would have been different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Social isolation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the in-person interactions of life at school is itself a big risk factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vast majority of my patients want to go back to school, miss the social contacts, miss the life that they have,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0615696&name=d-richard-martini\">Richard Martini\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Utah. \"I mean, these kids really do have a separate life in school that's important to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's among the reasons that the \u003ca href=\"https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/interim-guidance-on-supporting-the-emotional-and-behavioral-health-needs-of-children-adolescents-and-families-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/\">American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging\u003c/a> school districts to aim to bring back students into classrooms safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a level of social isolation for these kids ... that they have not experienced before,\" Martini adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isolation isn't just because schools are closed but also because the pandemic has restricted people's social lives. And that has a big impact, especially for kids in communities where extended family networks matter a lot, like in Oakland, where Romero, of Children's Hospital, works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of our patients that do have a mental health history, they really depend on extended family to be able to support them,\" she says. \"And that's been really challenging lately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And social isolation is \"one of the highest risk factors,\" for suicide, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New kinds of stress at home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the upheaval of the pandemic, the home environment has become unstable for many kids, says Martini, pointing to job and income loss as major stressors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially vulnerable are kids from families hit hardest by the pandemic among communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Either they had the virus, they lost people to the virus or they're impacted because they are a minority and their community ... [has suffered] losses over losses,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Warren Ng, a child psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center, says one of his patients, a boy, told him he wanted to die after watching his father die from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero also recalls suicidal kids she has seen recently who have lost family members to the virus or have parents who are currently sick and hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Families who have lost family members, parents who have lost jobs, kids who have lost contact with people who are close to them, children who have experienced some significant challenges at school,\" says Martini. \"All of these experiences are fairly traumatic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A child faced with these layers of difficulties can easily start to feel overwhelmed, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may also be in a position where they feel they can't talk to anybody, even their parents,\" he says. \"And as the number of solutions for that situation dwindle, they may begin to think that I'd rather be dead than sort through this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially when there is so much uncertainty around when the pandemic will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's the coupling of those things that are pretty daunting for a lot of our youth,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/3598/nasuh-mahmoud-malas-md-mph\">Nasuh Malas\u003c/a>, a psychiatrist and pediatrician at the University of Michigan. \"I mean, these are kids, right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suicide can be prevented, and family members can play a role in keeping kids well. For ways to help kids at risk, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962185779/make-space-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide\">\u003cem>read Part 2 of this story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking about prevention\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Clark County, the school district is grappling with what it can do to prevent more suicides. Last July, it started using a software that alerts staff when it identifies at-risk students by monitoring their online activity. The staff then contact parents and offer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to find kids that are just the 'silent screamers,' \" says Jesus Jara, the district superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/02/suicide-nv-2_enl-df35e5391b1968a2cee4ba9ef665a9d0b8f050b2-e1612342102984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After an abrupt spike in suicide deaths among students, officials at the Clark County School District held a series of listening sessions and are looking for ways to bring the most vulnerable students back for some in-person support. \u003ccite>(Joe Buglewicz for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, the district hosted a series of listening sessions with parents and other stakeholders to try to understand what's going on with student mental health and how to help. Based on the feedback it received, it is in the process of bringing some kids back to in-person school in small groups for academic and social and emotional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly six months since their son died, Marc and Pamela Orr are still struggling to cope with their trauma and grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sleep is elusive,\" says Pamela. \"Any time can be a hard time. I mean, I can be in the grocery store, and I see his favorite breakfast cereal, and I just have to stop what I'm doing and just leave because anything, everything can be a trigger for the intense sadness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope, she and her husband go on long walks every day. They are also seeing a therapist for the first time and talking to other parents of youth who died by suicide. And in the process, they find themselves asking questions about suicide and mental health that they'd never asked before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, why don't schools and workplaces talk more openly about mental health and suicide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At work, we have all these tools — hard hats, gloves and glasses\" to safely work with electricity, says Marc, who's a crew foreman for NV Energy. \"We have nothing for mental health. ... It's not talked about. Everybody turns a blind eye to it because it's taboo, it's icky.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wonders why schools don't have mental wellness checks for students. \"They get well-checks, you know,\" he says. \"Insurance pays for a well-check. But there's not any mental [health] screening that's done or emotional screening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A crisis, but also an opportunity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise in mental health problems among children should spur the country to fix its mental health care system, argues Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1205956968/jennifer-havens\">Jennifer Havens\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crisis is often an opportunity,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, the U.S. should provide routine mental health checks for kids from a young age and their families, she says: \"It should be just part of what we do to keep people well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals and behavioral health care providers are already required to do depression screenings for adolescents, she says; schools should also be doing these screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be able to identify the kids ... particularly for getting kids who are in early stages before they're really sick, and help them,\" says Havens. \"You don't have to wait until kids try to kill themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And mental health care providers can help teachers learn to spot the early signs of problems, says Martini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solutions aren't just at schools. We also need better access to mental health care services for kids, says Martini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is an incredible backlog in getting children mental health services,\" he says. \"If I had all the money in the world, I think what I would do is really invest in a broad scope of services for teenagers and children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those services would include day treatment programs that are less intense than in-patient units and can diagnose a child's problems. He would also expand access to telepsychiatry and create more programs that send mental health care workers into people's homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest roadblock in making all this a reality is a lack of parity in insurance coverage for mental and physical health, says Havens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of preventive interventions that are effective,\" she says. \"But the way the [mental health care] system is set up, we can't actually get paid to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the country needs to invest in kids' mental health, she adds. But, \"there's no magic bullet here,\" she says. \"We need to have a robust [mental health] care system ... and insurance companies need to pay for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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But all he got was a \"mini [graduation] ceremony,\" with only a handful of students walking, wearing masks and at a distance from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the most we could do because of COVID,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony graduated with honors as he had planned to, wearing a white robe and cap and an advanced honors sash, says Pamela. But he decided against going to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now ... it's all online, and you just lose the whole college experience,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he got a job working in construction. His parents thought he was doing fine. \"He seemed happy to us,\" says Pamela. \"He seemed happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in August of last year, Anthony died by suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pamela and her husband, Marc, struggle to come to terms with their loss, his school district in Las Vegas is trying to come to grips with the troubling statistic his death is part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was one of 19 students who has died by suicide in the district since the shutdown last March. Thirteen of those deaths occurred since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a sense of urgency,\" says Jesus Jara, the superintendent of the Clark County School District. \"You know, we have a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suicide is complex, involving layers of risk factors, including biological and environmental ones. And it's hard to know the exact factors involved in the deaths of these 19 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sudden rise in deaths has school district officials worried that the coronavirus pandemic may have played a role. And educators and mental health care providers in other parts of the United States have the same concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, many suicidal children have been showing up in hospital emergency departments, and more kids are needing in-patient care after serious suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Across the country, we're hearing that there are increased numbers of serious suicidal attempts and suicidal deaths,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sduffymd\">Susan Duffy\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Brown University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a3.htm\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>, between April and October 2020, hospital emergency departments saw a rise in the share of total visits that were from kids for mental health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there are no nationwide numbers on suicide deaths in 2020 yet, and researchers have yet to clearly link recent suicides to the pandemic. Yet on the ground, there's growing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with providers at hospitals in seven states across the country, and all of them reported a similar trend: More suicidal children are coming to their hospitals — in worse mental states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kids that we are seeing now in the emergency department are really at the stage of maybe even having tried or attempted or have a detailed plan,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/psychiatry/dr-vera-feuer-md-11351332\">Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, director of pediatric emergency psychiatry at Cohen Children's Medical Center of Northwell Health in New York. \"And we're admitting to the hospital more kids than usual because of how unwell they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has seen a slight increase in 10-to-11-year-olds attempting, but the majority of kids she sees are teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places are seeing a rise in 2020 numbers compared with 2019 as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of kids with suicide attempts coming to the emergency room at Children's Hospital Oakland, in California, in the fall of 2020 was double the number in the fall of 2019, says \u003ca href=\"https://rocketreach.co/marisol-romero-email_107721118\">Marisol Cruz Romero\u003c/a>, a psychologist and the coordinator for the hospital's behavioral emergency response team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, the number of children and teens hospitalized after suicide attempts went up from 67 in 2019 to 108 in 2020. And October 2020 saw a 250% increase in these numbers over the previous October, says \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/13218/blake-hillary\">Hillary Blake\u003c/a>, a pediatric psychologist at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrists and other doctors who work with children say the pandemic has created a perfect storm of stressors for kids, increasing the risk of suicide for many. It has exacerbated an ongoing children's mental health crisis — suicide rates had already been going up for almost a decade among children and youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems brought on by the pandemic, they say, only highlight the weaknesses in the mental health safety net for children — and point to an urgent need for new solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The stories that we hear day by day in the emergency department really speak to us about the level of difficulties, the layers of traumas and the real problems that families are facing,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suicide can be prevented, and family members can play a role in keeping kids well. For ways to help kids at risk, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962185779/make-space-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide\">\u003cem>read Part 2 of this story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loss of critical in-person support services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many young people, like Anthony Orr, have no diagnosis or known history of mental illness when they start struggling with thoughts of suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the children who are most vulnerable right now, says Duffy, are the ones with underlying physical or mental illness, because the pandemic has disrupted in-person services they relied on in communities and at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have difficulties with their mood or difficulties with learning or socialization or medical issues,\" says Feuer. \"And now you have other layers of difficulties on top of that. These are the kids we see in real hopeless moments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, many of these children were \"relatively stable in the community with outpatient resources,\" says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Duffy saw a 13-year-old in her ER recently who had underlying anxiety and depression. The at-home and in-school services she relied on had been suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without those supports, her mental health worsened and she started to fall behind at school, says Duffy. The girl turned to self-harm and eventually attempted suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was her [older] teenage sister who found her in the bathroom and who called their mother, who had to leave work,\" says Duffy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feuer recalls seeing a 14-year-old last fall who began to struggle at school after developing a medical issue that hadn't been properly diagnosed because of pandemic-related delays in care. He was in constant pain and couldn't focus on schoolwork, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, the pandemic had taken away his access to sports, \"which was his world and life,\" says Feuer. \"And then he looks at you and says, 'What's the point? What do I have to look forward to? You tell me, what do I have to be hopeful about?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Falling off the radar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another layer of risk right now is that virtual schooling has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/20/828026185/school-counselors-have-a-message-for-kids-it-s-ok-to-not-be-ok\">made it much harder\u003c/a> for teachers and school counselors to identify and help students who are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/02/suicide-nv-1_enl-e04172b859840f437c7ca766192b14743fc4a53a-e1612342060508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Neely is a counselor at Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas. Neely lost one of her favorite students to suicide last May, just two weeks before graduation. \u003ccite>(Joe Buglewicz for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Nevada shut down last March and the Clark County School District switched to virtual learning, Colleen Neely, a counselor at Shadow Ridge High School, on the outskirts of Las Vegas, tried her best to stay connected with her students by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn't as easy as being in the school together, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are just extra barriers,\" says Neely. \"We're not there just in passing, or they can't go to their teacher and be like, 'Hey, I want to see my counselor.' They can't stop in at lunch. They have to make that effort with an email or clicking on a computer to make an appointment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Neely's supervisor called her to give her the news that one of her favorite students had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a smart ... shy kind of kid,\" says Neely. \"Very kind, polite and respectful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was used to seeing him every day as he would stop by her office to check in. She says he had been homeless for a while and had some emotional struggles too. The school had eventually found him a family to live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he'd been doing really well when the school switched to virtual learning, says Neely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was passing all of his classes, going to earn the highest-level diploma that we offer at our school. So he was in a really good place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was devastated to hear that he'd taken his own life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd just sent him an email, telling him how proud I was of him,\" Neely says. \"And that he was almost there. And the next phase of his life was going to start.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neely doesn't know the exact circumstances that led to his death. But she knew he was at risk because of his past struggles. And she wonders if someone could have helped him if the pandemic hadn't upended everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of me will always question, if we had been in the building — and if he had been able to just see another adult, his friends, possibly talk to me — if things would have been different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Social isolation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the in-person interactions of life at school is itself a big risk factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vast majority of my patients want to go back to school, miss the social contacts, miss the life that they have,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0615696&name=d-richard-martini\">Richard Martini\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Utah. \"I mean, these kids really do have a separate life in school that's important to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's among the reasons that the \u003ca href=\"https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/interim-guidance-on-supporting-the-emotional-and-behavioral-health-needs-of-children-adolescents-and-families-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/\">American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging\u003c/a> school districts to aim to bring back students into classrooms safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a level of social isolation for these kids ... that they have not experienced before,\" Martini adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isolation isn't just because schools are closed but also because the pandemic has restricted people's social lives. And that has a big impact, especially for kids in communities where extended family networks matter a lot, like in Oakland, where Romero, of Children's Hospital, works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of our patients that do have a mental health history, they really depend on extended family to be able to support them,\" she says. \"And that's been really challenging lately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And social isolation is \"one of the highest risk factors,\" for suicide, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New kinds of stress at home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the upheaval of the pandemic, the home environment has become unstable for many kids, says Martini, pointing to job and income loss as major stressors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially vulnerable are kids from families hit hardest by the pandemic among communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Either they had the virus, they lost people to the virus or they're impacted because they are a minority and their community ... [has suffered] losses over losses,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Warren Ng, a child psychiatrist at Columbia University Medical Center, says one of his patients, a boy, told him he wanted to die after watching his father die from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero also recalls suicidal kids she has seen recently who have lost family members to the virus or have parents who are currently sick and hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Families who have lost family members, parents who have lost jobs, kids who have lost contact with people who are close to them, children who have experienced some significant challenges at school,\" says Martini. \"All of these experiences are fairly traumatic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A child faced with these layers of difficulties can easily start to feel overwhelmed, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may also be in a position where they feel they can't talk to anybody, even their parents,\" he says. \"And as the number of solutions for that situation dwindle, they may begin to think that I'd rather be dead than sort through this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially when there is so much uncertainty around when the pandemic will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's the coupling of those things that are pretty daunting for a lot of our youth,\" says Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/3598/nasuh-mahmoud-malas-md-mph\">Nasuh Malas\u003c/a>, a psychiatrist and pediatrician at the University of Michigan. \"I mean, these are kids, right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suicide can be prevented, and family members can play a role in keeping kids well. For ways to help kids at risk, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962185779/make-space-listen-offer-hope-how-to-help-a-child-at-risk-of-suicide\">\u003cem>read Part 2 of this story\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thinking about prevention\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Clark County, the school district is grappling with what it can do to prevent more suicides. Last July, it started using a software that alerts staff when it identifies at-risk students by monitoring their online activity. The staff then contact parents and offer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to find kids that are just the 'silent screamers,' \" says Jesus Jara, the district superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/02/suicide-nv-2_enl-df35e5391b1968a2cee4ba9ef665a9d0b8f050b2-e1612342102984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After an abrupt spike in suicide deaths among students, officials at the Clark County School District held a series of listening sessions and are looking for ways to bring the most vulnerable students back for some in-person support. \u003ccite>(Joe Buglewicz for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October, the district hosted a series of listening sessions with parents and other stakeholders to try to understand what's going on with student mental health and how to help. Based on the feedback it received, it is in the process of bringing some kids back to in-person school in small groups for academic and social and emotional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly six months since their son died, Marc and Pamela Orr are still struggling to cope with their trauma and grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sleep is elusive,\" says Pamela. \"Any time can be a hard time. I mean, I can be in the grocery store, and I see his favorite breakfast cereal, and I just have to stop what I'm doing and just leave because anything, everything can be a trigger for the intense sadness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope, she and her husband go on long walks every day. They are also seeing a therapist for the first time and talking to other parents of youth who died by suicide. And in the process, they find themselves asking questions about suicide and mental health that they'd never asked before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, why don't schools and workplaces talk more openly about mental health and suicide?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At work, we have all these tools — hard hats, gloves and glasses\" to safely work with electricity, says Marc, who's a crew foreman for NV Energy. \"We have nothing for mental health. ... It's not talked about. Everybody turns a blind eye to it because it's taboo, it's icky.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wonders why schools don't have mental wellness checks for students. \"They get well-checks, you know,\" he says. \"Insurance pays for a well-check. But there's not any mental [health] screening that's done or emotional screening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A crisis, but also an opportunity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise in mental health problems among children should spur the country to fix its mental health care system, argues Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1205956968/jennifer-havens\">Jennifer Havens\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crisis is often an opportunity,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, the U.S. should provide routine mental health checks for kids from a young age and their families, she says: \"It should be just part of what we do to keep people well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals and behavioral health care providers are already required to do depression screenings for adolescents, she says; schools should also be doing these screenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be able to identify the kids ... particularly for getting kids who are in early stages before they're really sick, and help them,\" says Havens. \"You don't have to wait until kids try to kill themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And mental health care providers can help teachers learn to spot the early signs of problems, says Martini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solutions aren't just at schools. We also need better access to mental health care services for kids, says Martini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is an incredible backlog in getting children mental health services,\" he says. \"If I had all the money in the world, I think what I would do is really invest in a broad scope of services for teenagers and children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those services would include day treatment programs that are less intense than in-patient units and can diagnose a child's problems. He would also expand access to telepsychiatry and create more programs that send mental health care workers into people's homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest roadblock in making all this a reality is a lack of parity in insurance coverage for mental and physical health, says Havens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of preventive interventions that are effective,\" she says. \"But the way the [mental health care] system is set up, we can't actually get paid to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the country needs to invest in kids' mental health, she adds. But, \"there's no magic bullet here,\" she says. \"We need to have a robust [mental health] care system ... and insurance companies need to pay for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Child+Psychiatrists+Warn+That+The+Pandemic+May+Be+Driving+Up+Kids%27+Suicide+Risk&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57343/child-psychiatrists-warn-that-the-pandemic-may-be-driving-up-kids-suicide-risk","authors":["byline_mindshift_57343"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20884","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_57344","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_41379":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_41379","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"41379","score":null,"sort":[1438113648000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-can-adults-help-students-buck-the-pressure-of-perfection","title":"How Can Adults Help Students Buck the Pressure of Perfection?","publishDate":1438113648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Six University of Pennsylvania students committed suicide in 13 months. Tulane lost four students this past school year. In the 2009-2010 school year Cornell had six suicides. Anxiety and depression are the two most common mental health diagnoses among college students according to the \u003ca href=\"http://ccmh.psu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State\u003c/a>. What's going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html?_r=2&assetType=nyt_now\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times article\u003c/a> Julie Scelfo examines how students internalize external expectations of success, constantly feeling like they aren't measuring up. Some experts say social media makes the problem worse, offering a platform where young people can present a perfect version of life to the outside world, even if inside many are wracked with self-doubt. Scelfo writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"William Alexander, director of Penn's counseling and psychological services, has watched a shift in how some young adults cope with challenges. 'A small setback used to mean disappointment, or having that feeling of needing to try harder next time,' he said. Now? 'For some students, a mistake has incredible meaning.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeta Kumar, who has been counseling at Penn for 16 years, has noticed the same change. Getting a B can cause some students to fall apart, she said. 'What you and I would call disappointments in life, to them feel like big failures.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can the adults in students' lives \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/12/how-can-students-be-successful-in-a-high-stakes-world/\" target=\"_blank\">help them grow up\u003c/a> with a healthier approach to life's setbacks and challenges?\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Students are struggling to live up to high expectations, often believing they are failing where others are happily succeeding.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1456262199,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":254},"headData":{"title":"How Can Adults Help Students Buck the Pressure of Perfection? | KQED","description":"Students are struggling to live up to high expectations, often believing they are failing where others are happily succeeding.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Can Adults Help Students Buck the Pressure of Perfection?","datePublished":"2015-07-28T20:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2016-02-23T21:16:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41379 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=41379","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/28/how-can-adults-help-students-buck-the-pressure-of-perfection/","disqusTitle":"How Can Adults Help Students Buck the Pressure of Perfection?","path":"/mindshift/41379/how-can-adults-help-students-buck-the-pressure-of-perfection","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Six University of Pennsylvania students committed suicide in 13 months. Tulane lost four students this past school year. In the 2009-2010 school year Cornell had six suicides. Anxiety and depression are the two most common mental health diagnoses among college students according to the \u003ca href=\"http://ccmh.psu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State\u003c/a>. What's going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html?_r=2&assetType=nyt_now\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times article\u003c/a> Julie Scelfo examines how students internalize external expectations of success, constantly feeling like they aren't measuring up. Some experts say social media makes the problem worse, offering a platform where young people can present a perfect version of life to the outside world, even if inside many are wracked with self-doubt. Scelfo writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"William Alexander, director of Penn's counseling and psychological services, has watched a shift in how some young adults cope with challenges. 'A small setback used to mean disappointment, or having that feeling of needing to try harder next time,' he said. Now? 'For some students, a mistake has incredible meaning.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeta Kumar, who has been counseling at Penn for 16 years, has noticed the same change. Getting a B can cause some students to fall apart, she said. 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