New research points to feelings of failure, hopelessness, loneliness and sadness as some of the potential reasons Black young people are considering or carrying out suicide at unprecedented rates.
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Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous teens have different online experiences – both positive and negative – than their white peers. These differences are overlooked when research focuses on white kids.
For Black youth, death by suicide has become a leading cause of death. And they face social problems that give rise to depression and isolation that their white counterparts do not.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Director of Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, Wellesley College
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Research scientist, University of California, Irvine
