Teens Can Experience A Mental Or Emotional Crisis Too

There are few things more terrifying and stressful than ending up in ER with a youth who is experiencing a mental or emotional health crisis. The parents and their teen are in urgent need of assistance, everyone is confused and scared, and looking for someone who can offer safety for their teen, and comfort and reassurance for themselves. This is the kind of situation where a mental health crisis toolkit is a huge benefit as it can help parents calm down and give them better ways of communicating, and help the ER team with understanding the situation. Mental health in teens is an important topic. These are the future adults in our society, we need to take better care of them. How they are treated and helped, or ignored and shunned will affect the culture and society they will be leading.

Many teens are in a vicious mental health cycle

It is a mistake to think that because a person is not yet an adult that they do not know what real stress feels like, or real loss, or real love and so on. Their emotional and mental health is just as important, just as real. Unfortunately, there is a big problem in this society of mental health problems being something we do not talk about, and pretend is not there. Why is there no shame in having and getting treatment for cancer, but there is for having and getting treatment for depression? It becomes a cycle of mood swings, aggression, suicidal thoughts, self-harming, self-destructive behavior, suicide attempts, anxiety and so on. To improve things for teens who are struggling it is important that they get access to professional help a lot more quickly, and know about resources that are out there, and that their parents, educators and other adults in their life know about options like a behavioral health toolkit too.

The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide US

There are several charities and organizations out there offering support, resources, tools and education to try and help and that includes the SPTS. They have two toolkits one for helping in emergency departments, a mental health crisis toolkit and then there is another, a behavioral health toolkit for parents, teachers, caregivers and such to know what to look for and what to do if they have concerns.

The former is a list of what to do, what to ask and then what to expect in an emergency department to help communication, improve engagement from the patient themselves and help support families during this terribly vulnerable time. The latter is a great resource as it goes over what warning signs to look for in a teen who might be thinking about suicide as well as offers resources on where to get help from. It helps parents or teachers advocate for the teen and the best way to get timely help for them. It also helps with language to use with their teens so that communication is possible and engagement does not lead to making things worse.

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