Bereavement after suicide: Disentangling clues to better help bereaved adolescents

Children and adolescents are bereaved by the suicide of a relative in one third of the suicides in the US (Pfeffer, Jiang, Kakuma, Hwang, & Metsch, 2002). In a survey of a representative sample of US adolescents, Cerel and    Roberts (2005) found that 1.2% had been exposed to the suicide of a close relative, and 3.2% of adolescents had been exposed to the suicide of a peer in the year before the survey (Cerel, Roberts, & Nilsen, 2005).