Understanding Suicide and Self-Injury: What Parents Need to Know

Raising Good Humans

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this important episode, Harvard professor Dr. Matt Nock joins us to tackle the difficult yet crucial topic of suicide and self-harm. Drawing from decades of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nock shares actionable insights on how parents can approach these conversations, identify risk factors, and foster hope. Whether or not this topic has touched your life directly, this episode offers essential guidance and support for parents navigating these challenging issues.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:09.8	Welcome to Raising Good Humans and happy 2025, everyone.
0:15.5	You're still easing your way into the new year.
0:18.6	I'm here for you.
0:19.8	And this 2025 season of Raising Good Humans podcast
0:24.9	is here to help and support you. And today is a really hard topic. I want to encourage you to
0:33.0	listen whether or not this topic has been in any way on your mind, it's suicide and self-harm.
0:41.0	It's such a hard topic to think about and to talk about.
0:45.3	But by having these conversations, we can actually prevent more harm.
0:50.8	And one of the things we know is that nobody wants to talk about it. And it's really scary to think about. And of course it is. It's the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Or it's the worst thing that you absolutely don't want to imagine. But having this conversation and knowing a little bit more leaving this conversation can save lives. And I have enlisted Matt
1:14.4	Knock. Professor Matt Knock is a brilliant, and I mean, brilliant psychologist. He is at Harvard
1:24.2	University. He's also a MacArthur scholar,
1:27.9	as in the MacArthur Genius Awards,
1:30.3	where they just pick geniuses out in the world
1:32.7	who are contributing to changing our world for the better
1:37.5	and grant them this award.
1:40.3	His research is aimed at understanding
1:42.1	why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves.
1:46.2	His work is funded from the National Institute of Health, and he's published over 250 scientific papers, book chapters.
1:58.3	He's recognized and has been recognized as the world's leading researcher on
2:05.3	this incredibly hard topic. Gratefully, he's also a scientific advisor to the National Institute
2:11.9	of Health, the World Health Organization, the World Mental Health Survey Initiative,
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