Essential Questions on Suicide Bereavement and Postvention

Karl Andriessen and Karolina Krysinska
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Karl Andriessen: Suicide Prevention Program of the Flemish Community Mental Health Centres, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Karolina Krysinska: Unit for Clinical Psychology Research, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Catholic University Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

IJERPH, 2011, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: During the past decades public and research interest in postvention, i.e. , support for families and communities after a suicide, has increased. However, the postvention field is still facing a number of important challenges and questions. This article aims to discuss a series of essential issues on suicide bereavement and postvention, regarding the current state of the art and future developments. Who is a suicide survivor and how many suicide survivors are there? Is suicide bereavement different from other types of bereavement? What are the needs of suicide survivors and what is postvention from a clinical perspective and from a public health perspective? Can postvention be prevention? With this last question, the article concludes with a series of recommendations in order to strengthen the potential of postvention as prevention.

Keywords: suicide; prevention; postvention; bereavement; public health; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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