Suicide Prevention: How to Help your Teen with Suicidal Thoughts
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Learn how you can help prevent suicide if your teen is struggling with suicidal thoughts, behaviors, or urges. Your hosts Megan Dean and Jake Sparks from Embark Behavioral Health will give you actionable tips, resources, and best practices for communicating with your child when they are struggling with difficult challenges like self-harm and suicidal ideation.
Resources:
Blogs for Parents:
What Is Suicidal Ideation in Teens?
Suicidal Thoughts and Warning Signs
When Suicide Prevention Involves Your Child
How to Discuss Thoughts of Depression and Suicide
How to Parent a Teen with Anxiety
You Found Out Your Daughter Is Cutting: What Should You Do?
What Parents Need To Know When Their Adolescent Has Depression
Videos for Parents
How to Improve Teen Mental Health
A Day in the Life of a Short-Term Residential Therapist
Eating Disorders: How Parents Can Support Their Child
Host Bios
Jake Sparks is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has spent the last decade working with often suicidal adolescents and their parents in their journey toward health and healing. During this time, Jake has been a clinician and Clinical Director of several adolescent programs, and is currently the Treatment Director at Embark BH, where he gets to work with the some of the nation’s best and brightest clinicians. Jake’s approach to therapy is centered on the role of relationship and attachment in the context of families. He believes that when authenticity and vulnerability are met with acceptance and empathy people thrive!
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