{"title":"When a loss is due to suicide: Unique aspects of bereavement","authors":"L. Range","doi":"10.1080/15325029608415460","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although bereavement from suicide shares a common core of experience with other bereavement, there are unique features as well. These include stigma, feelings of blame and personal responsibility, other unusually strong emotional reactions, an exacerbated search for meaning, and deception about the cause of death. Bereaved persons also are misunderstood, and they face inappropriate comforting, which includes being asked intrusive questions, receiving sympathy from those who feel uncomfortable, and being offered diminished social support. Research on suicidal bereavement is often limited by its retrospective nature, biased respondents, noncomparable control groups, idiosyncratic dependent measures, and failure to examine family factors. These shortcomings are only now beginning to be addressed. Therapists for suicidally bereaved individuals should assess for suicide and refrain from overly ambitious goals and should consider referral to self-help groups that comprise individuals who have had simil...","PeriodicalId":47527,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","volume":"1 1","pages":"71-81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15325029608415460","citationCount":"28","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Loss & Trauma","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15325029608415460","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract Although bereavement from suicide shares a common core of experience with other bereavement, there are unique features as well. These include stigma, feelings of blame and personal responsibility, other unusually strong emotional reactions, an exacerbated search for meaning, and deception about the cause of death. Bereaved persons also are misunderstood, and they face inappropriate comforting, which includes being asked intrusive questions, receiving sympathy from those who feel uncomfortable, and being offered diminished social support. Research on suicidal bereavement is often limited by its retrospective nature, biased respondents, noncomparable control groups, idiosyncratic dependent measures, and failure to examine family factors. These shortcomings are only now beginning to be addressed. Therapists for suicidally bereaved individuals should assess for suicide and refrain from overly ambitious goals and should consider referral to self-help groups that comprise individuals who have had simil...
期刊介绍:
In one forum, Journal of Loss and Trauma brings together scholarship on personal losses relating to family, health, and aging issues. The journal addresses issues dealing with psychological and physical health and interpersonal losses relative to extended family, community life, and society as a whole. In order to broaden the reader"s perspective on loss and bereavement, the journal defines loss as a major reduction in a person"s resources, whether personal, material, or symbolic, to which the person was emotionally attached. Types of loss covered include: death and dying; dissolution and divorce; loss of employment; life-threatening diseases and long-term disability; loss of possessions; homelessness.