I had the honor to sit down with Dr. Tyler Black, MD, as we sat down to discuss teen suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation on social media, video games, and astrophotography.   

"Tyler Black, MD, FRCPC, is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Suicidologist who has been in clinical practice for over thirteen years.  For 11 years, he was the Medical Director of Emergency Psychiatry at BC Children's Hospital.  On top of clinical duties, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a researcher specializing in suicidology, psychopharmacology, and video games.  He is the co-creator of the HEARTSMAP (www.openheartsmap.ca), a psychosocial assessment and guidance tool for youth in emergency department, and the creator of the ASARI (Assessment of Suicide And Risk Inventory), a documentation tool for clinicians who are assessing or noticing suicide risk."  

Follow Dr. Tyler Black on Twitter: twitter.com/tylerblack32  

Chapters 0:00 Intro/Background 7:30 What is a suicidolgist and the data of teen suicide 29:05 Social media pushback 39:25 Astrophotography 45:11 Video games and kids...and violence? 54:44 Psychiatry in cinema 66:32 Wrap-up   

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