Forum takes a look at increasing rates of depression and suicide amongst college students and adolescents. What are the factors responsible for the increase, and what can be done about them?
Teen Suicide
Forum takes a look at increasing rates of depression and suicide amongst college students and adolescents. What are the factors responsible for the increase, and what can be done about them?
Guests:
Lynn Ponton, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and the author of "The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do" and "The Sex Lives of Teenagers"
Joanna Locke, program director of the Jed Foundation, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to student suicide prevention
Andrea Henderson, youth risk reduction educator