The past 20 years have seen dramatic rises in suicide rates in the United States and other
countries around the world. These trends have been identified as a public health crisis in …

Death of a parent in childhood and adolescence is a distressing life event. Childhood grief
reactions are distinct from those in adults, and are affected by developmental and contextual …

Background There are few prospective, population‐based studies on childhood parental
death and psychiatric disorders in adulthood, and previous findings are inconclusive. This …

Durkheim argued that strong social relationships protect individuals from suicide. We posit,
however, that strong social relationships also have the potential to increase individuals' …

Despite the fact that randomization is the gold standard for estimating causal relationships,
many questions in prevention science are often left to be answered through …

Importance Parental death from suicide is associated with increased risk of suicide in the
bereaved child, but little is known about the long-term risks of suicide after parental death …

Background There is increasing interest in routine screening for Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs) to help identify high-risk children who would benefit from interventions …

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of sudden parental bereavement on subsequent
attainment of developmental competencies. This longitudinal study reports on 126 youth …

A robust literature suggests that suicide is socially contagious; however, we know little about
how and why suicide spreads. Using network data from the National Longitudinal Study of …

The recent rise in suicide rates among children and adolescents has made suicide
prevention in youth a major focus of government agencies and mental health organizations …