Hospitalizations and emergency room visits for suicide attempts and ideation rose nationally among children and teens from 2016 to 2021, a new study has found — the latest in a series of alarm bells about the state of young people’s mental health.
across age groups, often attributed to seasonal changes in temperature and weather.
“Now that we know that there’s some national data suggesting that hospitalizations increase during the fall and the spring, we need to think about doing suicide prevention programming both right at the beginning of the school year, but also thinking about doing it kind of proactively when kids are younger,” Singer said.
“When a kid says that they’re thinking about suicide, sometimes the tendency is to elevate the level of risk of that child because people are concerned,” Miranda said. “But automatically taking the kid to the hospital, to the emergency room, for some kids that might be helpful, but not for many kids, that’s not the next necessary step.”
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