A Parent's Guide

Ever felt helpless about how to help your teen who is having suicidal thoughts, or just left the hospital after your teen had cut or attempted suicide?
Every year high schools in America are included in a survey named the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. In 2021 42% of youth reported persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness, 22% seriously considered attempting suicide, 18% made a suicide plan, and 10% attempted suicide.
If you are a parent, these statistics can be scary. I hope to share some of the evidence-based tools to help manage suicidal thoughts in teens. As a child psychiatrist working in a tertiary care center, I wish that I could meet the parents of teens who are struggling and together we can try to prevent suicide. The sad reality is that we end up meeting families after the teen attempted suicide.
In this Parent's Guide to prevent suicide in your loved one, we will be discussing the following topics:
- Recognizing warning signs for suicide
- Reasons why would a teen attempt suicide
- What can you do as a parent to help your teen who is having suicidal thoughts?
- Is Your teen at risk for suicide now?
- How to prevent suicide
False Myths "There is nothing really that you can do to prevent suicide."
Reality- there are many things that you can do as a parent to prevent suicide with your loved one.
In this book, we will be discussing evidence-based, tools and tips that you can use to help your teen. If you are a parent of an adolescent, I think it will be helpful for you to read this book. If your teen suffers from depression, anxiety, self-harm, or panic attacks this is a MUST read for you. Scroll up and click the buy button, you be glad you did. See you inside.