Citation

Horowitz LM, Bridge JA, Pao M, Boudreaux ED. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2014; 47(3 Suppl 2): S170-5.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amepre.2014.06.002

PMID

25145735

Abstract

This paper focuses on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Research Prioritization Task Force's Aspirational Goal 2 (screening for suicide risk) as it pertains specifically to children, adolescents, and young adults. Two assumptions are forwarded: (1) strategies for screening youth for suicide risk need to be tailored developmentally; and (2) we must use instruments that were created and tested specifically for suicide risk detection and developed specifically for youth. Recommendations for shifting the current paradigm include universal suicide screening for youth in medical settings with validated instruments.

Language: en