Due to the high risk of morbidity it is important for healthcare providers to be skilled in suicide screening as it can help prevent suicides. Adolescents are still developing. They are at the stage where they are too old to act like children, but not old enough to be treated like adults. This can cause a disturbance in their self-perception which can affect their emotions, often making them confused about who they are and causing feelings of self-consciousness and isolation. During this stage, adolescents are at high risk for risky behaviors due to changes in the brain's neurochemicals. “Changes in dopamine activity affect the limbic system, which is involved in emotions, and its connection to the prefrontal cortex, responsible for executive skills such as reasoning, problem solving and decision making. Emotional increase
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