Preventing Suicide How to Start a Survivors’ Group
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2008
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Description
- The importance of self-help support groups- What are self-help support groups?
- Importance of self-help support groups for those bereaved by suicide
- Surviving a suicide
- Impact of suicide
- Sources of help for the bereaved
- How to initiate a self-help support group for survivors of suicide
- Developing the operational framework for the group
- Identifying and gaining access to resources to support the group
- Gauging success
- Potential risk factors for the group
- Survivor support in countries without support programmes and in rural areas
- Survivor support through “involvement therapy” in other activities