To be sure, it’s a multidisciplinary effort, involving psychiatrists, emergency room physicians, social workers, public health experts, pediatricians, school counselors, teachers and many others. And on the other end, we need to find ways to get these approaches into our communities." "We need basic science to inform our treatments. "In the suicide field, psychologists are really partnering across three arms: science, services and policy," adds Joan Asarnow, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles’s David Geffen School of Medicine, whose work focuses on suicide prevention and interventions in youth. You can do it all in one lifetime," says psychologist Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). "Our field is unique in the opportunities it provides to engage in all sorts of activities: research, clinical work, teaching, influencing policy. And many psychologists in the suicide field have skills that extend across other subfields of psychology, enabling them to act simultaneously as clinicians, researchers and educators. Meanwhile, psychologists working in advocacy roles are drawing from the latest research to educate the public and promote policies proven to reduce suicide rates.
Clinical researchers are testing new therapeutic interventions, and clinicians on the front lines are helping deliver those treatments to people who are struggling. Applied scientists are seeking new ways to identify those at risk. Basic scientists are exploring brain changes and risk factors associated with suicidal ideation and behavior. Within the field of psychology, experts are bringing their unique skills to bear on the problem of suicide. Yet suicide researchers say that situation is starting to change. Meanwhile, health-care providers still struggle to identify those at risk and to intervene. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (see March Monitor, "Worrying Trends in U.S. Between 19, the suicide rate increased 33%, according to the U.S. Over the decades, suicide rates have climbed and fallen and climbed again.
For people ages 35 to 54, it ranks fourth, and for 10- to 34-year-olds, second. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States, overall.
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