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| Aftermath of Suicide: Postvention in a School System - http://wdh.state.wy.us/wspi/pdf/pub/Aftermath%20of%20Suicide.pdf Read this study, in PDF format, by Beverly Celotta that was published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling in 1995. |
| Ingenta - Principles of Postvention: Applications to Suicide and Trauma in Schools - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/udst/1998/00000022/00000004/art00005 Publication by A. A.Leenaars and S. Wenckstern that defines concepts such as posttraumatic stress, suicide, and postvention, offering guiding principles. |
| NCBI - An active postvention program - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15384655&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Learn about an Active Postvention Model (APM) described in this article, demonstrating how survivors of suicide can be an installation of hope for the newly bereaved and an effective referral resource for support in the grief process. |
| Do suicide survivors suffer social stigma: a review of the literature - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=15822848 Offers a "review of literature, providing insight into stigma as an underlying element in suicide bereavement and point to the role of health professionals in dealing with this complex issue." |
| Consequences of a suicide for the bereaved, The - current knowledge, unresolved questions and tasks - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11600956&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Study pointd out "that more attention should be given to the implementation of suicide postvention measures in order to alleviate the negative aftereffects of suicides." |
| South Australian Suicide Postvention Research Project - http://www.adelaide.edu.au/health/gp/units/gr/research/#sas Read about this study carried out by the Faculty of Health Services, The University of Adelaide. |
| Suicide Loss Research - http://lifegard.tripod.com/research.html Read this outline that summarizes some of the methodological issues involved in empirical studies of those who have experienced a suicide loss. |
| Long-term impact of exposure to suicide: a three-year controlled follow-up - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=8935212 Study concludes "xposure to suicide does not result in an increased risk of suicidal behavior among friends and acquaintances, but it has a relatively long impact in terms of increased incidence of depression, anxiety, and PTSD." |
| Suicide prevention in schools: the art, the issues, and the pitfalls - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=10553309&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Indicates "Caplan's model of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention--or prevention, intervention, and postvention--is proposed as a comprehensive response to suicide in youths." |
| Nursing postvention for widows and widowers - http://www.nursinglibrary.org/Portal/main.aspx?pageid=4024&sid=436 Learn about this research to evaluate postvention during the bereavement process of widows and widowers whose spouse died of suicide. |
| Postvention after teenage suicide: an Australian experience - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=1797880&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Notes "paper describes interventions with students perceived to be at high risk for imitative suicidal behaviour in three secondary schools where there had been a completed suicide of a student." |
| NCBI - Survivors' guilt following sudden traumatic loss - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16962457&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Subtitled "Promoting Early Intervention in the Critical Care Setting", this study notes the role critical care nurses can play in postvention. |
| NCBI - Interventions for suicide survivors: a review of the literature - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15585456&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Abstract notes "research suggests that suicide survivors may be at elevated risk for several psychiatric and somatic complications." Read for details. |
| NCBI - Negative Effects of a School Suicide Postvention Program-A Case Example - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8952144&dopt=Abstract J. Callahan details "inadvertently, some of the postvention activities appeared to contribute to the romanticization and glorification of the deaths." Read for details. |
| Nurses' grief reactions to a patient's suicide - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3804/is_200201/ai_n9052724 LookSmart Find Articles shares this study by Sharon M. Valente and Judith M. Saunders that concludes nurses need a support system to help them cope with grief after a patient's suicide. |
| Nursing postvention for spousal survivors of suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=8707534&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Reveals "the major aim of this study was to compare the effects of two theoretically derived nursing postventions, Bereavement Group Postvention (BGP) and Social Group Postvention (SGP), among the widowed whose spouses died of suicide." |
| NCBI - Can professionals and nonprofessionals work together following a suicide? - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11727898&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Study examines "the uniqueness of survivor grief and how best to help survivors. It is suggested that their grief may be too quickly viewed as pathological, resulting in the premature medicalization of basically normal reactions." |
| Effective Postvention for Police Suicide - http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2001-2/loo.htm Read this paper by Robert Loo, Human Resource Management and Organizational Studies, Univerity of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. See "A Model for Suicide Postvention." |
| Assessment of knowledge gains in proactive training for postvention - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=8840420&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Details "this paper describes the development of a knowledge measure for the evaluation of a proactive training program for suicide postvention and analyses of its psychometric properties." |
| Do increasing adolescent suicide rates result in increasing prevention/postvention programs in Ohio? - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_199804/ai_n8803466 Read about this research survey, by Jane Wolfe, Craig Mertler and Jennifer Hoffman, in this article, published by LookSmart Find Articles. |
| NCBI - Coping and complicated grief in survivors of homicide and suicide decedents - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17073395&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum "Summarizes a comprehensive literature review and explores research of coping strategies used by survivors of homicide and suicide decedents." |
| NCBI - Grief as a transformative experience - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=14685962&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Subtitled "Weaving through different lifeworlds after a loved one has completed suicide," this research is an exploration and interpretation of the lived experiences of family members since they lost a close family member to suicidal death. |
| NCBI - Do they suffer more? Reflections on research comparing suicide survivors to other survivors - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11326771&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Article notes "although suicide is commonly thought to cause a particularly burden-some grief, quantitative studies have often failed to support this." |
| NCBI - Complicated grief and suicidal ideation in adult survivors of suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16268767&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Abstract reveals "complicated grief was associated with a 9.68 times greater likelihood of suicidal ideation after controlling for depression, suggesting that syndromal complicated grief heightens vulnerability to suicidal ideation." |
| NCBI - SOPRoxi: a research-intervention project for suicide survivors - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16642914&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Learn about this Italian project that "aims to remove the stigma associated with this condition and to offer adequate, multifaceted help to survivors." |
| Role of the forensic nurse in the assessment of abuse: among female suicide survivors, The - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1613/is_200205/ai_n7028039 Notes "article reports a study examining the suicide survivor's experiences of abuse. " See the abstract offered by LookSmart Find Articles. |
| Psychiatric sequelae to the loss of an adolescent peer to suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=8496113&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Study concludes "postvention programs not only should focus on the prevention of imitation of suicidal behavior, but also should provide longer term follow-up for potentially bereaved and depressed youth exposed to suicide." |
| NCBI - Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15285967&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum Study concludes "clinicians should be alerted to the occurrence of traumatic grief reactions among adolescents and the need to assess these reactions and address them in their treatment approaches." |
| Hogrefe & Huber - Crisis - http://www.hhpub.com/journals/crisis/1996/abstv17i3.html Learn about this journal published under the Auspices of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). |
| Telematic technologies in mental health caring - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16613799&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Subtitled "A web-based psychoeducational program for adolescent suicide survivors," this study notes "at present, mental health professionals and other caregivers have limited access to clear information and guidelines to meet the postvention needs." |