Lessons in Mitigating Violence

How VA clinicians treat veterans’ PTSD while managing suicide risk, using shared decisions, safety planning, and phase-based trauma therapies.

Courts cite teen brain science to soften sentences; experts warn generalized neuroscience overreaches and adult responsibility stabilizes by 18 to 20.

Can hormones flag suicide risk in schizophrenia? Review links cortisol, thyroid and testosterone shifts—and clozapine/lithium pathways—to risk.

Learn how IPV shapes mental health from pregnancy to adulthood, and how clinicians assess risk, plan safety, and treat victims and perpetrators.

In this case exploration, a teen survives a gun injury yet denies self-harm, pushing clinicians to read beyond words and plan safety when suicide intent is unclear.