Breaking The Silence Asian American And Pacific Islander Youth Mental Health And Suicide

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.30358
TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that this podcast explores themes around the topics of self-harm and suicide.
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Miles Reyes and Dr. Apurva Bhatt discuss their co-authored CAMH journal Special Issue paper ‘Breaking the Silence: An Epidemiological Report on Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Mental Health and Suicide (1999–2021)’ (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12708).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
This paper was included in the 2024 CAMH journal Special Issue on ‘Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Child and Adolescent Mental Health’, published in May 2024.
Discussion points include:

• The reason behind using the term ‘Breaking the Silence’ in the title of the paper.
• The rates of death by suicide in Asian American and Pacific Islander youth and gender differences in the rates.
• The gender differences in the rates of self-reporting depression symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts in Asian American and Pacific Islander youth.
• Why this group have been excluded from previous studies and literature.
• Significant sub-groups differences within the findings and the differences compared to other demographic groups.
• The findings relating to the methods of suicide and how this differs across demographic groups.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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