After a suicide: A postvention prevention primer for providers

2006

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Montgomery County (PA) Emergency Medical Services, Inc.
Montgomery County (PA) Emergency Medical Services, Inc.

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http://lifegard.tripod.com/After_a_Suicide.pdf

Geared toward behavioral health care providers, this newsletter article examines many aspects of responding to survivors including what to say or not say, ways in which grief differs from that of other deaths, associations between mental illness and suicide or suicide loss, and postvention “first aid”.