Resource Tag: BEREAVEMENT GROUPS

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This paper outlines the pressing public health need to conduct research & determine effective ways to identify & meet the needs of suicide survivors, particularly through survivor support groups. After describing the various approaches to survivor support groups, the authors explain the need for further research, despite the inherent challenges. Finally, several questions are posed […]

With survey data collected primarily from peer support group participants, the authors compared stigmatization responses of 462 parents losing children to suicide with 54 other traumatic death survivors, & 24 child natural death survivors. Parents who encountered harmful responses & strained relations with family members & non-kin reported heightened grief difficulties. After controlling for time […]

The chapters in this handbook include: Setting Up a Support Group; the Suicide Bereavement Support Group; Staffing; the Suicide Bereavement Support Group Meeting; Facilitating the Group; Handling Difficult, Challenging or Sensitive Situations; Staff and Volunteer Self-Care; The Role of Supervision in Suicide Bereavement Support Group Facilitation; Ongoing Operations; Specific Populations; Other Options to Meet Needs […]

This article reviews quantitative & qualitative research on the psychopathological outcomes & thematic characteristics of childhood & adolescent suicide survivorship & moderating variables such as life stressors, stigma, the manner of communication about the suicide, & the surviving parent’s functioning. The authors outline several approaches to intervention & address conceptual & methodological challenges within the […]

In this book, the author & 5 survivors discuss being bereaved by suicide & the effects the death had on them personally. They describe what got them through their grief, when they felt a sense of happiness again, & at what point their lives took on a sense of normalcy once more.

This article describes a bereavement support group for Jewish survivors of suicide.

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This manual is organized into sections on planning & group guidelines, the basic group brochure, group facilitating, general bereavement, suicide & depression, suicide bereavement, information for families & children, survivor support, surviving the holidays, & miscellaneous handouts. Each section also includes a story by a person who has been bereaved by suicide.

This article outlines risk factors for suicide & notes how the population group most likely to die by suicide mirrors the population of firefighters. Warning signs of suicide & prevention strategies are reviewed. Postvention is discussed as are groups to support firefighters bereaved by suicide.

This paper discusses preventive support measures that can be used with individuals, families, & other groups of suicide survivors. Recent developments in preventive activities among Norwegian survivors are examined. (6 refs.)

This book includes chapters on: key points & recommendations; information available to the bereaved; the role of self-help groups; models of service provision; training & development for bereavement support services staff; the current profile of service delivery in Ireland; future service delivery; & costing of service delivery. Appendices provide a reference list, a bibliography, terms […]

The aim of this study was to understand how families bereaved by suicide fuctioned before & after the death. In-depth interviews were conducted with 6 focus groups selected from 36 families. Themes identified were a shocking experience, no chance of survival, triggering factors, mystery, emotional & physical scars, & coping strategies. The perception of witchcraft […]

This book is written for those bereaved by suicide but will also be of interest to ministers, those in intervention, & anyone struggling to know what to say to someone who has been bereaved. The authors discuss reactions to suicide, the suicidal mind, depression & adolescent suicide, survivors, rebuilding after bereavement, & suicide intervention.

Krane, a survivor of suicide, writes her story of how she moved from a state of hopelessness after her husband’s death to one where she could forgive & be happy again.

This document reports on the results of an e-mail questionnaire sent to the members of the Vancouver Suicide Survivors Coalition and the results from a focus group. Members were surveyed regarding satisfaction with the Coalition’s tasks & process, the changing role of a community partner in the Coalition, & suggestions for future work. The e-mail […]