Topic: warning signs of suicide in teens

Helping Your Teen Cope With Depression

Dr. Tali Shenfield

Teen depression is notoriously difficult for parents to understand and manage; not only is telling the difference between normal moodiness and depression sometimes challenging, parents are confronted with the fact that they cannot simply intervene and protect their child as they would have when he or she was younger. While parents are an essential source of support, a teen—like ...

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Teenage Suicide: Warning Signs and Prevention

Dr. Tali Shenfield

There can be few things more devastating to a family than a suicide of a child. Not just one person is lost but the whole family loses something that it can never get back. Most suicides, however, could have been prevented. This is why it is so vital for families to learn to identify the signals of potential suicide to ...

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