There are many different interventions that can be used to keep a suicidal safe/prevent suicide. This Child Psychiatrist who has been transing children and now regrets it is being a little bit cute to pretend that the choice was to either put the child on hormones/book them in for surgery or allow them to kill themselves. That was never …
There are many different interventions that can be used to keep a suicidal safe/prevent suicide. This Child Psychiatrist who has been transing children and now regrets it is being a little bit cute to pretend that the choice was to either put the child on hormones/book them in for surgery or allow them to kill themselves. That was never the case. There was never any reason not to treat suicidal ideation/threats/intention in the same way as we treat it in other patients.
Hospitalization until the crisis of suicidality passes, ECT to treat the underlying depression, medication to treat the underlying depression, therapy/counselling to explore and alleviate the causes of the distress using CBT, DBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, or whatever other model you are familiar with (the research suggests that it doesn't matter which psychotherapy model you use nearly as much as your skill at using that model).
By the way, I'm a Registered nurse who worked for 20 plus years as a community mental health nurse, alcohol and drug counsellor, and psychotherapist so I do know what I'm talking about.
There are many different interventions that can be used to keep a suicidal safe/prevent suicide. This Child Psychiatrist who has been transing children and now regrets it is being a little bit cute to pretend that the choice was to either put the child on hormones/book them in for surgery or allow them to kill themselves. That was never the case. There was never any reason not to treat suicidal ideation/threats/intention in the same way as we treat it in other patients.
Hospitalization until the crisis of suicidality passes, ECT to treat the underlying depression, medication to treat the underlying depression, therapy/counselling to explore and alleviate the causes of the distress using CBT, DBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, or whatever other model you are familiar with (the research suggests that it doesn't matter which psychotherapy model you use nearly as much as your skill at using that model).
By the way, I'm a Registered nurse who worked for 20 plus years as a community mental health nurse, alcohol and drug counsellor, and psychotherapist so I do know what I'm talking about.