Smithers Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center provides evidence-based care to individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Dr. Madelyn Gould recommends screening individuals for suicide risk and postvention/crisis intervention after a suicide to minimize and contain the effects of suicide contagion.
"It's very rare to see a suicide, death, or even an attempt outside the context of a psychiatric illness, half the time that illness is a depression," said Dr. John Mann.
“More and more, people see [attachment as] less categorical and more on a spectrum,” said Dr. Amir Levine, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia.
The new data are promising in relation to being able to apply to kids who already have some developmental concerns as well as those in the general population, said Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele.
