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After Teen Suicide Attempts, Stress Ran Both Ways With Parents

MHD card showing a parent and a teen sitting at opposite ends of a sofa in a dim teal room, with a faint arc of amber light beginning to form between them, illustrating interviews in which stress ran both ways between depressed teens and their parents.

When teens with depression were hospitalized after a suicide attempt, they and their parents described stress moving in both directions, from child to parent and back again. That pattern came from separate interviews with 12 teens and 12 of their parents at a psychiatric hospital in China.1 Research Highlights Parents’ moods reached their teens: all …

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