Relationship with the deceased as facilitator of posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1285372
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the role of ongoing relationships with the deceased in facilitating posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors. The sample comprised 58 suicide-loss survivors, 48 sudden-death, and 53 natural-death bereaved individuals, who… read more here.
Keywords: suicide loss; loss survivors; growth among; posttraumatic growth ... See more keywords
Recommendations for research on suicide loss: A commentary
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1335555
Abstract: ABSTRACT As detailed in the lead article in this Special Issue, the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention in the United States has recently worked to formulate… read more here.
Keywords: recommendations research; suicide loss; loss commentary; research suicide ... See more keywords
Distinguishing the meaning making processes of survivors of suicide loss: An expansion of the meaning of loss codebook
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1456011
Abstract: Abstract Suicide loss represents particularly a difficult form of bereavement due to the challenges that volitional death poses to survivors. Understanding these challenges requires recognition of the idiosyncratic processes of meaning reconstruction for this specific… read more here.
Keywords: meaning loss; loss codebook; suicide loss; survivors suicide ... See more keywords
Perceived suicide stigma, secrecy about suicide loss and mental health outcomes
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1539052
Abstract: Abstract Perceived suicide stigma and consequent secrecy about suicide loss could contribute to impaired mental health among suicide loss survivors. Using online survey data from 195 suicide loss survivors, higher perceived suicide stigma was associated… read more here.
Keywords: suicide loss; suicide stigma; perceived suicide; secrecy suicide ... See more keywords
Shame, depression, and complicated grief among suicide loss-survivors: the moderating role of self-disclosure
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DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2182820
Abstract: ABSTRACT Background: Suicide-loss survivors (SLSs) are recognised as an at-risk population for several psychiatric complications, including complicated grief (CG) and depression (SI). However, whereas shame is known as one of the characteristics of this population,… read more here.
Keywords: shame; self disclosure; depression; suicide loss ... See more keywords
Scoping review protocol to map studies on self-healing practices for suicide loss survivors
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064993
Abstract: Introduction Suicide loss survivors often find it challenging to access professional help due to social stigma despite being at a higher risk of developing suicidal behaviour and mental health problems. Most available grief interventions are… read more here.
Keywords: review; self healing; loss survivors; scoping review ... See more keywords
Suicide Attitudes Among Suicide Loss Survivors and Their Adaptation to Loss: A Cross-Cultural Study in Japan and the United States.
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DOI: 10.1177/00302228211051512
Abstract: Survivors' adaptation to a suicide loss is likely influenced by their attitudes toward suicide and their respective sociocultural contexts. Our study aimed to compare suicide attitudes and their association with depressive symptoms and sense of… read more here.
Keywords: suicide attitudes; loss; loss survivors; survivors adaptation ... See more keywords
Lessons Learned: Forty Years of Clinical Work With Suicide Loss Survivors
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00766
Abstract: The author has been a grief therapist in private practice for almost 40 years. The largest percentage of his clients have been suicide loss survivors, and in this article, the author reflects on the “lessons… read more here.
Keywords: work suicide; lessons learned; author; suicide loss ... See more keywords
Depression and Suicide Ideation among Suicide-Loss Survivors: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192416561
Abstract: Suicide is not only a tragic end of life but also may be the beginning of a very challenging life for those left behind. Suicide-loss survivors (SLSs) are individuals who were exposed to the suicide… read more here.
Keywords: suicide ideation; thwarted belongingness; depression; ideation ... See more keywords
What Do We Know about Suicide Bereavement, and What We Can Do to Help Suicide-Loss Survivors?
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20085577
Abstract: "Suicide is not only the end of life for the deceased but also the beginning of a highly challenging life for those left behind" [...]. read more here.
Keywords: know suicide; help suicide; loss survivors; bereavement help ... See more keywords