Suspecting that a teen might be suicidal

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Many parents fear they might have a kid who could be thinking about suicide. And the thought the parents should watch out for: everything sucks, it's my fault, it can't be changed. When you see that in your teenager please seek out an evaluation on qualify mental health professional. Call that person up and say: What do you specialize in? I don't want to say what my problem is first. I want you to say what do you specialize in and I want children and adolescence on a short list. By the long list, I'm more concerned. A short list kids and teens is on there. And say, okay, given that you specialize with youth - what are the interventions you do most commonly. And I'm listening for cognitive behavioral therapy. That is number one treatment with interpersonal therapy, that's another choice but CBT is been researched the most. I want someone who can provide that for my kid and I want them in there STAT - real fast. A lot of parents wonder how effective is therapy. In one study of adolescence intervention, after 12 weeks of intervention, 70% of the teenagers no longer met criteria for depression. At 36 weeks, that number went up over 80%. We have a small army of lean mean healing machines kept. They're all across this country. Ready and able to take evidence based steps to resolve this problem of teenager suicide. We just need parents have the courage to make that call.

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David Palmiter, PhD, ABPP

Psychologist & Author

Dr. David Palmiter is a professor of Psychology and Counseling at Marywood University. He is a practicing and board-certified clinical psychologist, a past president of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the author of over three dozen publications, including two books on promoting resilience in youth, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (true of < 6% of psychologists), the American Academy of Clinical Psychology and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association in youth. He has also given hundreds of workshops on family issues for organizations such as The Navy SEAL Foundation, The Master Therapist Series at the University of Connecticut, The American Psychological Association and the McGraw-Hill Financial Group and completed hundreds of media projects for outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, US News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal. David is also a dad of three (two studying at Cornell University and one still in high school) and husband of 27 years to Dr. Lia Richards-Palmiter. A central aspect of his professional mission is to put air under the wings of parents as they try to raise happy and resilient children and teens.

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