AAP Recommends Adolescent Suicide Screening

With suicide rates among young people rising in recent years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending adolescents 12 and up be screened for suicide risk as a part of regular preventive care. The group recently added the recommendation on screening for suicide risk to its depression screening guidelines. Health care providers are urged to ask their young patients a set of questions to identify thoughts and plans for suicide. Estimates showed over 6,600 suicides among people ages 10 to 24 occurred in the U.S. in 2020. Read more here.