Clinician Survivors of Suicide Loss
Information and Resources
UW CSPAR's Jeffrey Sung, MD has a narrated slide show video that reviews experiences that come up for clinician survivors of suicide loss - the frequency of this occurrence, the impact, emotions, roles & responsibilities and needs for coping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguUTy9uJ-8
Dr. Sung has also developed Guidelines for Individual Practitioners intended to help identify immediate responsibilities and potential resources and sources of support following a client suicide and Guidelines for Agency Practices Responding to Client Suicide designed to increase knowledge of immediate responsibilities, potential resources, and sources of support in the aftermath of a client suicide.
VHA Uniting for Suicide Postvention has a great set of postvention resources that address different aspects of the experience, including support for clinicians. The section for clinicians includes podcasts, videos and links to resources.
https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/postvention/providers/
This article by Quyyam, et al. includes a helpful organization of ways to support trainees after a patient suicide. These strategies can also be applied to organize self-care.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40596-020-01395-7
This article by Valente is a rare example of direct questions to guide how a clinician can engage in self-care following a patient suicide.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6163.2003.tb00669.x
This article by Griffith & Gaby outlines a framework for demoralization and then includes questions that can guide a restoration of morale in the face of painful circumstances. This framework and set of questions can be well applied to managing an experience of patient suicide.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318205701006?via%3Dihub
If you would like further information and support about Clinician Suicide Loss, please contact uwcspar@uw.edu or, for Jeffrey Sung, MD, jsung@uw.edu.
https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/postvention/providers/
This article by Quyyam, et al. includes a helpful organization of ways to support trainees after a patient suicide. These strategies can also be applied to organize self-care.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40596-020-01395-7
This article by Valente is a rare example of direct questions to guide how a clinician can engage in self-care following a patient suicide.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6163.2003.tb00669.x
This article by Griffith & Gaby outlines a framework for demoralization and then includes questions that can guide a restoration of morale in the face of painful circumstances. This framework and set of questions can be well applied to managing an experience of patient suicide.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318205701006?via%3Dihub
If you would like further information and support about Clinician Suicide Loss, please contact uwcspar@uw.edu or, for Jeffrey Sung, MD, jsung@uw.edu.
