Suicide

What is a safety plan, and how can clinicians use it to help patients with suicidal behavior?

Reading 1 story a day might help those living with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

From ketamine response to differences between mTBI and concussion, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

As Suicide Prevention Month continues, we take a look at the mental health of a group constantly caring for others: first responders.

September 4 to 10 is National Suicide Prevention Week, and September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

Suicide Prevention Week is September 4-10. Are you ready?

What does the Psychiatric Times Editor in Chief think about 988?

The new suicide hotline is launching July 16. Are we ready for it?

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention collaborates with Most Days, a mental health app, to provide suicide prevention expertise and content. Learn more about the partnership here.

What will society do to children in order to make them win? What should be sacrificed in the name of competition? How much pressure is too much? And how do we pick up the pieces when young athletes are pushed too far?

How can looking at the suffering of patients with schizophrenia through a psychodynamic lens help clinicians develop effective interventions and treatment plans?

The new 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hopes to save lives, and we want to know your thoughts on it.

Learn what potential challenges come with mHealth apps and how to overcome them to best fit patient needs.

The Chief Medical Officer for the AFSP sat down with Psychiatric Times to talk about the new Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention.

How can these mHealth apps help in the treatment of depression?

In the absence of definitive data, how can primary care providers help prevent suicide and provide compassionate care that promotes quality of life in their patients?

Primary care providers are increasingly seeing patients who are struggling with mental illness—how can they effectively assist these patients?

Panelists presented 2 studies comparing evidence-based strategies for improved patient outcomes.

We need to talk about the startling suicide rates in Black girls and women...

An adolescent psychiatric RN shares “Heavy Damage,” a poem about managing grief after losing a loved one to suicide.

Recent updates in suicide prevention interventions for older adults and how a novel tablet application may provide relief to individuals at high risk of suicide.

Research data have implications for prevention programs.

May his words and ideals continue to inspire...

If a patient gives consent to be killed, is a physician ethically justified in acceding to the request?

Poetry approaches the visceral experience of intense emotion better than prose or medical reports.

The Chief Medical Officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention sat down to talk with Psychiatric Times about the new data on suicide deaths between 2019 and 2020.

Is this patient reaction the calm before the storm?

In this CME, learn to identify 3 patient groups who are characterized by elevated rates of suicidal behavior and co-occurring cognitive/neuropsychological impairment.

In cases of assisted suicide, do patients really have rational autonomy?