Suicide Video: How to Explain Suicide to Children
Talking to children about a family member committing suicide or suicide attemps is a difficult task. Watch this video on suicide and how to explain suicide of a loved one to children. Dr. Nancy Rappaport, who lost her mother to suicide when she was four, explains how to talk to your child about suicide in the family.
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About our guest on the suicide video: Dr. Nancy Rappaport
Dr. Rappaport is a child psychiatrist, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of School Based Programs in Child Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts. Dr. Rappaport is also the author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide. You can visit Dr. Rappaport's website here: http://www.nancyrappaport.com/
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Created on April 29, 2010 Last Updated on March 29, 2012
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