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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding (from a friend who went through this with her daughter several times) was that you need to hospitalize the kid to keep them safe until you are absolutely sure they are not going to attempt suicide.  In N Virginia kids go to a Dominion Hospital (where they may learn bad habits from each other.) 
Is that not a common approach, social workers and pediatricians?  [/quote]

I'm one of the social worker PPs. I've had clients hospitalized when I believed that they were at immediate risk of suicide. I don't know what I would do in OP's situation. Her daughter denies wanting to kill herself. My clients did not deny it - they disclosed that they wanted to kill themselves (not "be dead" or "not be alive anymore") and described a specific plan for how they would commit suicide.

It's essentially the difference between someone who is sick and needs to see a doctor in the morning and someone who needs to call 911 right now. Given that your friend went through this "several times", it might have been more apparent that hospitalization was the answer. It isn't always necessary, nor is it always a good solution, as you point out re: bad habits.[/quote]

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