Sleep and Daily Suicidal Ideation Among High-Risk Adolescents and Young Adults

Duration: 28 mins DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21689

Description

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jessica Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Dr. Peter Franzen, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, discuss their JCPP paper, ‘Sleep influences daily suicidal ideation through affective reactivity to interpersonal events among high-risk adolescents and young adults’.

Learning Objectives

1. How they went about examining sleep as a proximal risk factor for suicide
2. Their finding that short sleep may impair how teens can regulate their already intense emotions
3. Implications of their findings are for CAMH professionals
4. How they envisage their findings will translate into practice
5. Resources that listeners may find of use
6. Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy makers.

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Dr. Jessica Hamilton

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University

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