ArticleThe Journal of nervous and mental disease2017
Why We Need to Enhance Suicide Postvention: Evaluating a Survey of Psychiatrists' Behaviors after the Suicide of a Patient.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Toward better prevention of physician burnout: insights from individual participant data using the MD-specific Occupational Stressor Index and organizational interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Brazilian Psychiatric Association guidelines for the management of suicidal behavior. Part 2. Screening, intervention, and prevention.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Pooled it
- Brief report: A cross-sectional survey of provider engagement with family members following patient drug overdose death.The American journal on addictions · 2026Article
- The impact of patient death and suicide on mental health professionals: mixed-methods study.BJPsych open · 2026Article
- Developing Longitudinal Post-Overdose Care: A Call to Action.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2026Article
- The impact of adolescent suicide on professionals in secure residential youth care.Residential treatment for children & youth · 2025Article
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- When Prevention Is Not Enough: The Importance of Postvention After Patient Suicide.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Article
- "I was Close to Helping him but Couldn't Quite get There": Psychiatrists' Experiences of a Patient's Death by Suicide.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2023Article
- Improving Suicide Prevention in Primary Care for Differing Levels of Behavioral Health Integration: A Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Suicide Postvention in Schools: What Evidence Supports Our Current National Recommendations?School social work journal · 2022Article
- Suicide prevention in the covid-19 era.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Responding to a Tragedy: Evaluation of a Postvention Protocol Among Adult Psychiatry Residents.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2021Article
- Occupational exposure to suicide: A review of research on the experiences of mental health professionals and first responders.PloS one · 2021Review
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- Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention: Challenges and Opportunities.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2020Review
- Supporting Providers After Drug Overdose Death.The American journal of psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
Suicide prevention efforts are increasing to enhance capabilities and better understand risk factors and etiologies. Postvention, or how clinicians manage the postsuicide aftermath, strengthens suicide prevention, destigmatizes the tragedy, operationalizes the confusing aftermath, and promotes caregiver recovery. However, studies regarding its efficacy are minimal. The Psychopathology Committee of the Group for the Advancement for Psychiatry surveyed a convenience sample of psychiatrists to better understand postvention activities. Ninety psychiatrists completed the survey; they were predominantly men (72%) with an average of 24.6 years of experience (SD, 16.7 years). Most had contact with the patient's family within 6 months of the suicide, and most psychiatrists sought some form of support. Few psychiatrists used a suicide postvention procedure or toolkit (9%). No psychiatrists stopped clinical practice after a patient suicide, although 10% stopped accepting patients they deemed at risk of suicide. Postvention efforts, therefore, should be improved to better address survivor care.
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