Editorial: Elevating the Narrative About Adverse Events During Development

US middle- or high-school age children are taught about the perils of cyber bullying in health classes. They learn that they are at risk of suicide because of online harassment behaviors and that resources are being expanded to prevent, report or interrupt such bullying. The perspective that the suicide victims ’ likely have other salient predisposing or precipitating risk factors, eg, summarized comprehensively by Turecki and Brent,1 is however usually not emphasized simultaneously. In the context of an abundance of studies documenting clear associations between childhood or adolescence adverse experien ces and many aspects of health, as reviewed recently in the Lancet Public Health2, it is not an exaggeration to observe that a crucial axiom of first science classes: correlation is not causation can be overlooked when adverse events emerges narratively as the major etiological cause of much of psyc hopathology including youth suicide.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - February 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anne L. Glowinski Tags: Editorial Source Type: research