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Chapters discuss critical areas for future research, including how to evaluate the effectiveness of suicide prevention and intervention efforts, increase access to mental health care, and overcome systemic barriers that undermine generalizability of prevention strategies.
The review identified that specific youth suicide-prevention interventions can reduce both self-harm and suicidal ideation in clinical, school and community settings, challenging the nihilism that often pervades in suicide prevention.
The EU-funded SEYLE project addressed this issue and created an interactive, school-based intervention programme aimed at 14- to 16-year-olds. Known as Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM), it seeks to empower adolescents and combines role play, discussions and a hands-on take on sensitive topics.
No one person (parent, teacher, counselor, administrator, mentor, etc.) can implement suicide prevention efforts on their own. The participation, support, and active involvement of families, schools, and communities are essential. Youth focused suicide prevention strategies are available.
Researchers in the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research (CSPR) conduct epidemiological and intervention studies on child and youth suicide and suicidal behavior to inform policy, improve the delivery of services for suicidal youth, and ultimately prevent suicide and suicidal behavior.
The SEYLE Awareness program helps the adolescents to develop a large set of skills and knowledge about mental-health: functional knowledge (knowing about Mental Health), procedural knowledge (knowing how/having skills) and conditional knowledge (knowing the circumstances in which to use the skills).
Suicide in young people is a global public health problem, and improved identification, prevention, and treatment strategies are imperative. This review focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of suicide among young people, including strategies in clinical settings and schools.
