Main description:

This handbook examines research on youth suicide, analyzes recent data on suicide among adolescents, and addresses the subject matter as a serious public health concern. The book explores the research on youth suicide, examining its causes, new and innovative ways of determining suicide risk, and evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies. In addition, it focuses on specific under-studied populations, including adolescents belonging to ethnic, racial, and sexual minority groups, youth involved in the criminal justice system, and adolescents in foster care. The book discusses how culturally informed and targeted interventions can help to decrease suicide risk for these populations.

Key areas of coverage include:

Early childhood adversity, stress, and developmental pathways of suicide risk.
The neurobiology of youth suicide.
Suicide, self-harm, and the media.
Assessment of youth suicidal behavior with explicit and implicit measures.
Suicide-related risk among immigrant, ethnic, and racial minority youth.
LGBTQ youth and suicide prevention.
Psychosocial treatments for ethnoculturally diverse youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Technology-enhanced interventions and youth suicide prevention.

The Handbook of Youth Suicide Prevention is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, and all interrelated disciplines.

Chapters 8, 9 and 16 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Youth Suicidal Behavior.- Section 1. Theory and Research on Youth Suicide.- Chapter 2. Theories of Suicidal Behavior.- Chapter 3. Early Childhood Adversity, Stress, and Developmental Pathways of Suicide Risk.- Chapter 4. The Neurobiology of Youth Suicide.- Chapter 5. Maternal Depression and Family Suicide History as Risk Factors for Youth Suicide.- Chapter 6. The Relationship Between Suicide and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents.- Chapter 7. Suicide, Self-Harm, and the Media.- Chapter 8. Acculturation, Discrimination, and Youth Suicide Risk.- Section 2. Assessment of Youth Suicide.- Chapter 9. Assessment of Adolescent Suicide Risk.- Chapter 10. Implicit and Explicit Measures to Predict Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents.- Chapter 11. Suicide Risk Identification and Prevention Through Data Linkage and Informatics.- Section 3. Youth Suicide in Special Populations.- Chapter 12. Risk and Protective Factors to Improve Well-Being and Prevent Suicide Among LGBTQ Youth.- Chapter 13. Suicide Among Incarcerated and Justice Involved) Youth.- Chapter 14. Suicide Among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Indigenous Populations.- Chapter 15. Suicide Among Asian American Youth.- Chapter 16. The Risk for Suicide Among Adolescents in Foster Care.- Chapter 17. Suicidal Behavior Among Latina Adolescents.- Chapter 18. Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide for African American Youth.- Section 4. Youth Suicide Prevention and Treatment.- Chapter 19. Suicide Prevention Through Community Capacity Building in Resource Poor Areas and Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).- Chapter 20. Tailoring Evidence-Based Interventions for Minority Youth.- Chapter 21. Training Mental Health Providers to Prevent Teen Suicide Using Evidence-Based Approaches.- Chapter 22. Preventing Teen Suicide Through Schools and Primary Healthcare Outreach.- Chapter 23. Promoting Community Conversations to End Suicide.- Chapter 24. Technology-Enhanced Interventions for Youth Suicidality.- Chapter 25: Future Directions in Youth Suicide Prevention Research, Practice, and Policy.