Suicide Bereavement Research: The Trauma Defined/A Review of Control Group Studies/The Los Angeles Survivors-After-Suicide Program

Presents 3 short articles. The first discusses suicide grief in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder. The second offers findings from a review of control group studies of suicide survivors, noting similarity to accidental death survivors, the unclear nature of differences in reactions, & the effect of time on healing. The third discusses a controlled evaluation of the Los Angeles Survivors-After-Suicide Program. Of 60 participants, 55 (92&) rated the SAS experience favourably. (LH)