Resource Tag: BEREAVEMENT PROGRAMS

Offers suggestions for developing a postvention plan for suicide from the perspective that each school & community is unique & possesses its own resources. Suggestions include ideas for inservice programs, individual classroom procedures, things to look for in the days following a suicide, special events or memorial services & home visitation. (21 refs.)

This pamphlet discusses survivors of a suicidal death of a loved one. It advertises a 50-minute interactive educational videotape which defines & illustrates the bereavement characteristics of survivors. The tape is divided into 6 segments: shock, searching, memories, anger, guilt, & support group interaction. (VM)

This article uses Yalom’s curative factors, Parkes’ stages of grief, & Worden’s task of grief resolution to create a structured group model which facilitates movement through the grieving process for those who are bereaved by suicide. Group goals are outlined, & a program description including eight sessions are described. (VM)

This tape is comprised of 3 segments. The 1st discusses the development, curriculum & model behind the Suicide Prevention & Training Program’s (SPTP) Counselling the Bereaved Workshop. The 2nd speaker is a psychiatrist whose son committed suicide. She talks on “The Fine Art of Surviving” & gives useful suggestions on how to cope with the […]

This pamphlet outlines the services of a medical centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They provide 24-hour crisis counsellors & referrals for suicide survivors & those grieving a suicide death. (VM)

This pamphlet outlines a community model for response to an adolescent suicide. It describes pre-planning, organizational planning, a plan of action, potential activities, who should be involved, problems & benefits, funding/resources, & program evaluation. (VM)

Describes an outreach program for survivors of suicide, by survivors of suicide.

Responsibilities of student affairs staff following the suicide of a student on campus are discussed, as well as policies & procedures for handling the psychological & social ramifications. Training suggestions for student affairs staff are included.

The reviewer feels that if the program’s author wanted to resolve the pain of mourning, it is questionable what the program would accomplish. He was disquieted by claims made, data used, assumptions about the applicability of training, lack of coherent substance to the information, contradictions in the presentations, implicit threats to privacy & to personal […]

Newsletter article dealing with the number of survivors of suicide. Data collected from 1521 white, 18-65 year old, presently or previously married adults. Initial analysis shows 11.4% of population are suicide survivors which is significantly higher than the 1.3% rate previously reported. These people have a powerful voice & could mitigate two aspects of suicide […]

A newsletter article that presents hints, suggestions, & tips for someone who is a survivor of suicide for establishing & leading a bereavement group (SOS). (CM)

The Task Force on Youth Suicide reports on Recommendation 3 which involves evaluating the effectiveness & cost of interventions to prevent suicide. This recommendation is subdivided into 1) interventions addressed to the general population, 2) interventions addressed to specific populations, & 3) interventions to limit access of youth to lethal means of suicide. An action […]

This is a description of the Bereavement Program that is part of an overall service provided by the Vancouver, B.C., organization SAFER. An outline of material covered includes the intake process, statistics, program objectives, target population, anticipated changes, group process & post group counselling. The purpose of the group is to enable grieving survivors to […]

This pamphlet offers brief explanations for the feelings of guilt, shame & isolation often experienced by friends & family members after a suicide. It also describes the stages of mourning & S.A.F.E.R.’s bereavement program which includes a full day workshop & a follow-up workshop a few weeks later, a bereavement support group for survivors, & […]

This summary describes the growth of the Contra Costa Crisis & Suicide Intervention Service in California from a telephone hotline which took 139 calls in 1963 to a major agency which answered over 30,000 calls in 1986. Today it has a volunteer auxilliary, a grief counselling program which has been extended to survivors of any […]

School suicide programs are developing rapidly, yet evaluation criteria lacking. This paper emphasizes bereavement content in these programs since most school suicide programs emerge after several suicides & because bereavement is linked theoretically & empirically with suicide. A program of bereavement intervention after a suicide is described. Focuses of suicide prevention in adolescents are presented […]

A fair percentage of the 5000-6000 annually recorded youth suicides in the U.S. were enrolled in school setting at the time of their death. The effects of such a suicide completion on the family, friends & fellow students place them in the category of survivors of suicide, survivors who themselves have a 300% greater chance […]

Seven suggested strategies for intervening with an identified group when a suicide occurs is offerred & demonstrated using a case study example of a sixth grade boy. Groups significantly affected by a member’s suicide need to derive a functional interpretation of the loss. Secondly. a group needs toderive & support functional consequences of the loss. […]

This leader’s manual details a bereavement support group for students at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga. The manual includes goals for the support groups, problems students may have, formation of the group, suggestions for the first & succeeding sessions, activities, wrap-up questionnaire, & a general information section with symptoms of normal & abnormal grief, […]

This brief article uses case examples to help describe the Suicide Bereavement Program, a free service offered by Canadian Mental Health. The program offers counselling & group support to survivors of suicide. (LH)

Zinner states that survivor groups are not a form of group therapy but rather are groups of similarly experienced people who share their similarity for mutual support. The therapeutic benefits of support groups are discussed & information is given about the formation of groups within a community. (NBB)

A suicide survivor’s grief reaction is intensified by feelings of guilt that accompany this type of death. Recognizing the need for preventative action among survivors, the Central Crisis Center of Jacksonville, Florida developed a postvention program that attempts to make initial contact with survivors within 24 hours of the suicide. (NBB)

Bonnie Jacob states that one of the most beneficial things for the bereaved person is to be able to talk to someone other than family & close friends, someone whom they can bare their souls to without fear of rejection. She describes the formation of a suicide prevention program for bereaved survivors of suicide which […]