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Is Suicide Bereavement Different? A Reassessment of the Literature
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The question of whether suicide bereavement is different from mourning after other types of deaths has important theoretical and clinical implications. Some recent literature reviews have argued that the differences may be minimal. In contrast, this article suggests that suicide bereavement is distinct in three significant ways: the thematic content of the grief, the social processes surrounding the survivor, and the impact suicide has on family systems. In addition, problems in the methodology used to compare different bereavement experiences are addressed. Some clinical implications of these conclusions, including the need for homogeneous support groups, psychoeducational services, and family and social network interventions are also discussed.
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“there is evidence that negative attitudes towards those bereaved by suicide prevail and that stigmatization has taken more subtle forms of isolation and shunning [8,14–17].”
From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [8]
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“This evidence tentatively supports the assumption that stigma complicates the grieving process of suicide survivors [8,12].”
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“These results are converging with a line of research proposing that suicide bereavement and bereavement by other types of traumatic losses produce similar reactions [7,8].”
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“Suicide survivors have been shown to frequently suffer from negative feelings like shame, guilt, anger and blame [7,8].”
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“This result supports the findings of a larger body of research examining general public perception of and biases towards suicide survivors (see [8], [14], [17] for reviews).”
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“The latter often find more similarities than differences among different groups of the bereaved in regards to major themes, the trajectory and duration of bereavement, e.g., [11,13,14].”
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“Suicide bereavement may produce a markedly different mourning process from natural loss.5”
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“The grief responses expressed by the participants were reflective of complex grief patterns reported in the international literature.3,5,9”
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- Authors
- Jordan, J. R.
- Corresponding author
- Jordan, John R.
- Venue
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-03
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 91-102
- ISSN
- 0363-0234 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-278X
- OpenAlex
- W2152316482
- Cited by
- 433
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Keywords
- suicide bereavement, grief, mourning, grief support groups, family systems, social networks, psychoeducation
- MeSH terms
- Bereavement, Family, Humans, Suicide, Suicide, Attempted, Survivors
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