Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days agoDo Youth Suicide Prevention Programs Work?
Suicide rates among adolescents have risen sharply; suicide is now the second leading cause of death for ages 10–14 and third for ages 15–19.
In my lab, we watch dozens of videos of clinicians participating in five randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the effectiveness of the "Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality" (CAMS) developed in the SPL (Jobes, 2023). Among the ongoing RCTs, I have some observations to share from two particular multisite RCTs that are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).