He has successfully worked with some of the most challenging youth in various settings, including the foster care, academic, and
juvenile justice sectors in both the public and private sector.
Most adolescents with suicide ideation (80.2 %), a plan (87.5 %), or an attempt (94.2 %) have received some form of treatment, although it is important to remember the caution raised in the section on measures that some proportion of the «services» received in the human services,
juvenile justice, and school services
sectors might not have qualified as «treatment» (Table 6).
Responses were collapsed into 6 treatment
sectors: (1) mental health specialty (eg, psychiatrist or psychologist); (2) general medical (eg, primary care physician, nurse, or pediatrician); (3) human services (eg, counselor, crisis hotline, or religious / spiritual advisor); (4) complementary - alternative medicine (eg, self - help group, support group, or other healer); (5)
juvenile justice (eg, probation or
juvenile corrections officer or court counselor); and (6) school services (eg, special school for emotional / behavioral problems, school counseling, or school nurse).