July 2025: National Trends in Suicidal Thoughts and Suicide Attempts Among High School Students in the United States

Dr. Tanner Bommersbach (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) and Dr. Greg Rhee (University of Connecticut and Yale University School of Medicine) join AJP Audio to discuss estimating national trends in suicidal ideation and attempts in high school students with and without accompanying high-risk behaviors. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin discusses the rest of the July issue of the Journal. 00:07 Bommersbach and Rhee interview 00:36 Trends in suicide among high school students in the US 02:49 Variation in rates based on gender, racial identity, and sexuality 03:50 Did the rates increase during the COVID-19 pandemic? 04:14 Lessons to be learned from COVID? 05:23 Behavior risk factors 06:33 Clinical implications 08:19 Inflections in risk factors due to the pandemic? 08:52 Limitations 09:32 Future research 10:16 Kalin interview 10:31 Bommersbach et al. 14:20 Müller et al. 18:54 Ahn et al. 21:47 McCabe et al. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.

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July 2025: National Trends in Suicidal Thoughts and Suicide Attempts Among High School Students in the United States is an episode from American Journal of Psychiatry Audio by American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

This episode is 24:58 long.

This episode was published on Jul 1, 2025.

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