Open Access Youth Suicide Prevention Resource

Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Best Practices and Policy Implications is a new open access book that focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. The publication was edited by Dr. John Ackerman, director of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Suicide Prevention and Research and Dr. Lisa Horowitz from the National Institute of Mental Health. The book addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk detection in school and medical settings, critical cultural considerations, and approaches to lethal means safety. This book offers cutting-edge research on emerging discoveries in the neurobiology of suicide, psychopharmacology, and machine learning. It focuses on upstream suicide prevention research methods and details how cost-effective approaches can mitigate youth suicide risk when implemented at a universal level.