Suicide Related Content

On October 25, McLean Hospital’s Education Outreach Department once again collaborated with Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences to host a suicide-focused assessment and treatment course for health care professionals. This free online workshop...

Past studies found that motivation for suicide may contribute to opioid overdose deaths in people with opioid use disorder (OUD). In 2019, a research team at McLean Hospital found suicidal motivations are common just prior to nonfatal opioid overdose and occur along a continuum of severity. Hilary S...

On October 26, 2022, McLean Hospital, in collaboration with Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, hosted the second annual Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment Course. The event featured 11 lectures by leading experts in the field of suicidology. Topics included...

On Wednesday, October 26, McLean Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine are offering a free virtual workshop on suicide assessment and prevention. Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals will...

Medical education has long been a part of McLean Hospital’s mission, with programs aimed at both clinicians and the general public. But a long-planned suicide assessment workshop, held virtually in October 2021, brought home the value of online options as a way to reach the most people in the most...

On Wednesday, October 20, McLean Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine are offering a free virtual workshop on suicide assessment and prevention. “Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals” will...

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that transgender adults who had access to medication during adolescence that suppresses puberty had lower odds of experiencing suicidal ideation than their peers who wanted the treatment but were unable to access it. The study, titled “Pubertal...

A recent study published in Injury Prevention describes a method for categorizing self-injury mortality (SIM) to help us better examine national trends for today’s epidemics of suicide and drug-related deaths. This SIM study compared trends among non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics with those of...

Self-injury mortality (SIM), a composite of all methods of suicide and estimated non-suicide deaths from drug self-intoxication, has surpassed diabetes as the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, prompting researchers to call for a new unified approach to SIM prevention. “It is time...

Continuing its long tradition of offering twice-a-year professional development opportunities, the McLean Hospital Nursing Department presented its Spring 2018 Nurses’ Day Conference on Friday, May 11, in Pierce Hall. The daylong program, titled “Preventing Suicide: The Intersection of Public Health...

On April 17, 2017, suicide survivor Ana Febres-Cordero and her father Rafael ran the Boston Marathon to support public awareness and outreach programs focused on eliminating the stigma surrounding mental illness. Ana was inspired to partner with McLean Hospital to develop Deconstructing Stigma: Ana...

Through the month of March, Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company is presenting “ Every Brilliant Thing ,” a one-character play that looks at the issues surrounding suicide . Each Thursday during the run of the show, the company is hosting post-performance discussion sessions in which audience members...

62 McLean employees and guests participated in the annual 3-mile American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Walk—and helped us deconstruct stigma—in Brighton’s Artesani Park on October 29. Along with helping AFSP to raise more than $200,000, nearly 100 walkers from our team and other teams...