Suicide Related Content

Video: Current Status: Psychopharmacology for Suicide Prevention

Ross J. Baldessarini, MD , McLean Hospital, presents as part of the 2022 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course. Jump To Slides Resources Speaker biography Medications and Suicide Prevention In this talk, Baldessarini reviews biomedical treatments, especially...

Video: Substance Use Disorders and Suicide

Hilary S. Connery, MD, PhD , McLean Hospital, presents as part of the 2022 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course. Jump To Slides Resources Speaker biography Addiction and Suicide Suicide risk is elevated in connection to substance misuse. In this talk, Connery...

Video: Perseverations as a Risk Factor for Suicide

Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, presents as part of the 2022 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course. Jump To Slides Resources Speaker biography Perseverations and Suicide In their study, Rodriguez and Alan Schatzberg, MD...

Video: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Suicide Prevention

Nolan Williams, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, presents as part of the 2022 Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment: An Update for Professionals course. Jump To Slides Resources Speaker biography Clinical Utilization of TMS In his work, Williams has combined accelerated theta bursts...

The Worldwide Impact of Online Training for Suicide Prevention

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...

Video: Suicide – Basic Facts

Presented by Ross J. Baldessarini, MD , McLean Hospital In this talk, Baldessarini points out that while suicide rates have declined in much of the world in the past two decades, they have risen in the United States. Although no clear conclusions have been made, he says, the reasons for the increase...

Video: Suicide and Special Populations

Presented by Tami Benton, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The rates of suicide and suicide attempts are much higher among minoritized youth than previously recognized. In this lecture, Benton outlines the most recent data and trends for this population, shares information on specific risk...