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I. Mental Health and Other Professionals as
Survivors - Patient/Client Suicide
I A. Journal Articles
Akechi T. (2003, November-December). Trauma in a nurse after patient suicide. Psychosomatics, 44(6), 522-523.
Alexander, D. A., Klein, S., Gray, N. M., Dewar, I. G., & Eagles, J. M. (2000). Suicide by patients: Questionnaire study of its effect on consultant psychiatrists. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 320, 1571-1574. [full article, abstract, questionnaire used in study are available through the BMJ website]
Alexander, J. L. (2007). Client suicide: This is not happening to me: A clinical report and personal memoir. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 77(2/3), 67-78.
Alexander, P. (1977). A psychotherapist's reaction to his patient's death. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 7, 203-210. ANNOTATION
Anderson, E. J. (2000). The personal and professional impact of client suicide on Master's level therapists. Dissertation Abstracts International, 60(9), 4873B. (Publication Number AAT 9944663)
Balon, R. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: The need for guidelines. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 336-337.
Bartels, S. J. (1987). The aftermath of suicide on the psychiatric inpatient unit. General Hospital Psychiatry, 9, 189-197.
Bostwick, M. (1987, July-August). After a suicide. The New Physician, pp. 15-17.
Buelow, G. (1994). A suicide in group: A case of functional realignment. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 44, 153-168.
Bultema, J. K. (1994). The healing process for the multidisciplinary team: Recovering post-inpatient suicide. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 32(2), 19-24.
Campbell, C., & Fahey, T. (2002). The role of the doctor when a patient commits suicide. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26, 44-49.
** Carter, R. E. (1971). Some effects of client suicide on the therapist. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, 8, 287-289. ANNOTATION
** Chemtob, C. M., Bauer, G. B., Hamada, R. S., Pelowski, S. R., & Muraoka, M. Y. (1989). Patient suicide: Occupational hazard for psychologists and psychiatrists. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 20, 294-300.
** Chemtob, C. M., Hamada, R. S., Bauer, G., Kinney, B., & Torigoe, R. Y. (1988). Patients' suicides: Frequency and impact on psychiatrists. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 224-228. ANNOTATION
Chemtob, C. M., Hamada, R. S., Bauer, G., Torigoe, R. Y., & Kinney, B. (1988). Patient suicide: Frequency and impact on psychologists. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 19, 416-420.
Collins, J. M. (2003). Impact of patient suicide on clinicians. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 9, 159-162.
Cooper, C. (1995). Patient suicide and assault: Their impact on psychiatric hospital staff. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 33(6), 26-29.
Courtenay, K. (2002). Patient suicide. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26, 235.
Coverdale, J. H., Roberts, L. W., & Louie, A. K. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: Emotional responses, ethics, and implications for training [Editorial]. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 329-332.
Cryan, E.M.J., Kelly, P., & McCaffrey, B. (1995). The experience of patient suicide among Irish psychiatrists. Psychiatric Bulletin, 19, 4-7.
Farberow,N. L. (2005, February). The mental health professional as suicide survivor. Clinical Neuropsychiatry: Journal of Treatment Evaluation, 2(1), pp. 13-20.
Fothergill, A., Edwards, D., & Burnard, P. (2004, March). Stress, burnout, coping and stress management in psychiatrists: Findings from a systematic review. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 50(1), pp. 54-65.
Fox, R., & Cooper, M. (1998). The effects of suicide on the private practitioner: A professional and personal perspective. Clinical Social Work Journal, 26, 143-157.
Friedman, R. A. (2004, October 19). A patient's suicide, a psychiatrist's pain. New York Times, 154, Issue 53007, pp. F6-F6.
NEW Gaffney, P., Russell, V., Collins, K., Bergin, A., Halligan, P., Carey, C., & Coyle, S. (2009).Impact of patient suicide on front-line staff in Ireland. Death Studies, 33, 639-656.
Gitlin, M. (2007). Aftermath of a tragedy: Reaction of psychiatrists to patient suicides. Psychiatric Annals, 37, 684-687.
** Goldstein, L. S., & Buongiorno, P. A. (1984). Psychotherapists as suicide survivors. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 38, 392-398.
Gorkin, M. (1985). On the suicide of one's patient. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 49, 1-9. ANNOTATION
Grad, O. T. (1996). Suicide: How to survive as a survivor. Crisis, 17(3), 136-142.
Grad, O. T., Zavasnik, A., & Groleger, U. (1997). Suicide of a patient: Gender differences in bereavement reactions of therapists. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 379-386.
Hendin, H., Haas, A. P., Maltsberger, J. T., Szanto, K., & Rabinowicz, H. (2004). Factors contributing to therapists' distress after the suicide of a patient. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1442-1446.
Hendin, H., Lipschitz, A., Maltsberger, J. T., Haas, A. P., & Wynecoop, S. (2000). Therapists' reactions to patients' suicides. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 2022-2027.
Hendin, H., Maltsberger, J. T., & Szanto, K. (2007). The role of intensive affective states in signaling a suicide crisis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 363-368. [Note: while clinicians who had lost a client to suicide were interviewed, the primary focus of this study was primarily on the suicides]
Henry, M., Séguin, M., & Drouin, M.-S. (2004). Les réactions des professionnels en snaté mentale au décès par suicide d'un patient. [Mental health professionals' response to the suicide of their patients.] Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 25(3), 241-257.
Hodelet, N., & Hughson, M. (2001). What to do when a patient commits suicide. Psychiatric Bulletin, 25, 43-45.
Hodgkinson, P. E. (1987). Responding to inpatient suicide. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 60, 387-392.
Holden, L. D. (1978, May). Therapist response to patient suicide: Professional and personal. Journal of Continuing Education in Psychiatry, 39(5), 23-32. ANNOTATION
Horn, P. J. (1994). Therapists' psychological adaptation to client suicide. Psychotherapy, 31, 190-195.
Jacobson, J. M., Ting, L., Sanders, S., & Harrington, D. (2004). Prevalence of and reactions to fatal and nonfatal suicidal behavior: A national study of mental health social workers. Omega, 49(3), 237-248.
James, D. M. (2005). Relationship stories of psychodynamic therapists whose patients commit suicide (Doctoral dissertation, Fielding Graduate Institute). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B, 65(7-B), 3711. Order No. AA13140185
Jostad, J. (1987). Some experience in psychotherapy with suicidal patients. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 76(36, Supplement), 76-81.
Joyce, B., & Wallbridge, H. (2003, March). Effects of suicidal behavior on a psychiatric unit nursing team. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 41(3), 14-23.
Kapoor, A. (2002, August). Suicide: The effect on the counselling psychologist. Counselling Psychology Review, 17(3), 28-35.
** Kaye, N. S., & Soreff, S. M. (1991). The psychiatrist's role, responses, and responsibilities when a patient commits suicide. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148, 739-743. [Schacht, T. E. (1992). Letter. 149, 282. Pearlman, T. E. (1992). Letter. 149, 282-283. Kaye, N. S., & Soreff, S. M. (1992). Reply. 149, 283.]
Kayton, L., & Freed, F. (1967). Effects of a suicide in a psychiatric hospital. Archives of General Psychiatry, 17, 187-194.
Kleepsies, P. M., & Dettmer, E. L. (2000). The stress of patient emergencies for the clinician: Incidence, impact, and means of coping. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56, 1353-1369 (especially 1354-1355, "Patient Suicidal Behavior"; also includes a section on "The Impact of Working with Suicidal Patients," pp. 1357-1358)
Kolodny, S., Binder, R. L., Bronstein, A. A., & Friend, R. L. (1979). The working through of patients' suicides by four therapists. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 9, 33-46. (Reprinted in A. S. Cook, A. S., & K. A. Oltjenbruns (1989). Dying and grieving: Lifespan and family perspectives (pp. 457-471). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.) ANNOTATION
Landeen, J. J. (1987-88). Patient suicide: Its impact on the therapeutic milieu of a psychiatric unit. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 24, 74-78.
Linke, S., Wojciak, J., & Day, S. (2002, February). The impact of suicide on community mental health teams: Findings and recommendations. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(2), 50-52.
** Litman, R. (1965). When patients commit suicide. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 19, 570-576. (Reprinted in E. S. Shneidman, N. L. Farberow, & R. E. Litman (Eds.) (1970), The psychology of suicide (pp. 475-482). New York: Science House.) ANNOTATION
Little, J. D. (1992). Staff response to inpatient and outpatient suicide: What happened and what do we do? Australia & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 26, 162-167.
Lussier, Stephen Gerard. (2005). Counselor perspectives on suicide and suicidal ideation: A qualitative study. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 65(8-B), 4294.
Marshall, K. (1980). When a patient commits suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 10, 29-40. ANNOTATION
McAdams, C. R., III, & Foster, V. A. (2000). Client suicide: Its frequency and impact on counselors. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 22, 107-121.
McAdams C. R., III, & Foster, V. A. (2002, Fall). An Assessment of Resources for Counselor Coping and Recovery in the Aftermath of Client Suicide. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education & Development, 41(2), 232-241.
Meade, J. F. (1999). A counselor's journey of loss and healing after losing a client to suicide. Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 10(2), 30-31.
Menninger, W. W. (1991). Patient suicide and its impact on the psychotherapist. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 55, 216-227.
Michel, K. (1997). After suicide: Who counsels the therapist? Report from a workshop at the 29th Congress of the IASP. Crisis, 18, 128-130.
** Midence, K., Gregory, S., & Stanley, R. (1996). The effects of patient suicide on nursing staff. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 5, 115-120.
Modestin, J., & Wurmle, O. (1989). Role of modeling in in-patient suicide: A lack of supporting evidence. British Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 511-514.
O'Brien, P., & Wilkes, T.C.R. (2004). An adolescent psychiatric unit's responses to patient suicides. Family Therapy, 31(1), 1-16.
O'Reilly, R. L., Truant, G. S., & Donaldson, L. (1990). Psychiatrists' experience of suicide in their patients. Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa, 15, 173-176.
Peterson, E.M., Luoma, J.B., & Dunne, E. (2002). Suicide survivors' perceptions of the treating clinician. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 32, 158-166. [survivors provide their perceptions of the clinicians who treated their loved ones at the time of their deaths]
Plakun, E. M. & Tillman, J. G. (2005). Responding to clinicians after loss of a patient to suicide. Directions in Psychiatry, 25(4), 301-310.
Ponce, D. E., & Smith, J. P. (1989). Adolescent suicide in a residential treatment center: A clinical and administrative post-mortem. Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 7, 45-59.
Pope, K. S., & Tabachnick, B. G. (1993). Therapists‚ anger, hate, fear, and sexual feelings: National survey of therapist responses, client characteristics, critical events, formal complaints, and training. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 142-152.
Reeves, A., & Nelson. S. (2006, February). Tight ropes. Therapy Today, 17(1), 14-17.
Rickgarn, R. L. V. (1988, October). Suicidal encounters--Suicidal experience. Journal of Counseling and Development, 67, 97.
Rissmiller, D. J., & Rissmiller, F. (1990). Inpatient suicide epidemics and suggestions for prevention. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 41, 922-924.
Rubenstein, H. J. (2003). Psychotherapists' experiences of patient suicide. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 63(9-B), 4385.
Ruskin R., Sakinofsky, I., Bagby, R. M., Dickens, S., & Sousa, G. (2004, Summer). Impact of patient suicide on psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees. Academic Psychiatry: The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association for Academic Psychiatry, 28(2), 104-110.
Sanders, S., Jabobson, J., & Ting, L. (2005). Reactions of mental health social workers following a client suicide completion: A qualitative investigation. Omega, 51, 197-216.
NEW Sanders, S., Jacobson, J.M. & Ting, L. (2008). Preparing for the inevitable: Training social workers to cope with client suicide. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 28, 1-18.
Stern, E. M. (1985, Fall). Three
instances of the emergence of grief. Psychotherapy Patient,
2(1), 3-14. [Therapist survivor-case, pp. 9-14]
ANNOTATION
Sudak, H. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: The role of survivors. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 333-335.
Thomyangkoon, P., & Leenaars, A. (2008). Impact of death by suicide of patients on Thai psychiatrists. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 38, 728-740.
Tillman, J. G. (2003, September). Frontline--The suicide of patients and the quiet voice of the therapist. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry, 31(3), 425-427.
Tillman J.G. (2006, February). When a patient commits suicide: an empirical study of psychoanalytic clinicians. The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 87(Pt 1), 159-77.
NEW Ting, L, Jacobson, J.M. & Sanders, S. (2008). Available supports and coping behaviors of mental health social workers following fatal and non-fatal client suicide behaviors. Social Work, 53, 211-221.
NEW Ting, L. Sanders, S., Jacobson, J.M., & Power, J. (2006). Dealing with the aftermath: A qualitative analysis of reactions of mental health social workers after a client suicide. Social Work, 51, 329-342.
** Valente, S. M. (1994). Psychotherapist reactions to the suicide of a patient. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64, 614-621.
Valente, S. M. (2003, January-March). Aftermath of a patient's suicide: A case study. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 39(1), 17-22.
Valente, S. M., & Saunders, J. M. (2002, January-March). Nurses' grief reactions to a patient's suicide. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 38(1), 5-14.
Vogel, R., & Wolfersdorf, M. (1987). Staff response to the suicide of psychiatric patients. Crisis, 8, 178-184.
Walmsley, P. (2003, October). Patient suicide and its effect on staff. Nursing Management - UK, 10(6), 24-26.
Weiner, K. M. (Ed.). (2005). Special full issue of the journal Women & Therapy, Volume 28(1), 2005, with the same pagination published also as: Therapeutic and legal issues for therapists who have survived a client suicide: Breaking the silence. New York, NY: Haworth Press. [See individual articles below under "Books/Book Chapters"]
Wells, M. L. (1991). Psychotherapists' perceptions of client suicide: A phenomenological investigation. Dissertation Abstracts International, 53(2), 1112B. (Publication Number AAT 9220589)
Woods, L. W. (1973). Disaster during psychiatric treatment: An intrapsychic problem for the physician. Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 18, 67-70.
Young, J. J., Ursano, R. J., Bally, R. E., & McNeil, D. S. (1989). Consultation to a clinic following suicide. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 59, 473-476. ANNOTATION
American Association of Suicidology, 15th annual meeting, New York City, April 15-18, 1982. (800-1200 word abstracts appear in C. R. Pfeffer & J. Richman (Eds.). (1982). Proceedings. Denver: AAS.):
Backer, B. A., Hannon, N., & Russell, N. A. (1982). Death and dying: Individuals and institutions (pp. 205-225, esp. pp. 219-220, "The health care professional's response to suicide"). New York: Wiley, Chapter 7, "Suicide."
Berman, A. (1995). "To engrave herself on all our memories; to force her body into our lives": The impact of suicide on psychotherapists. In B. L. Mishara (Ed.), The impact of suicide (pp. 85-99). New York: Springer.
Campbell, F. R. (2006). Aftermath of suicide: The clinician's role. In R. I. Simon & R.E. Hales (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management (pp. 459-476). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Cotton, P. G., Drake, R. E., Whitaker, A., & Potter, J. (1989). Guidelines for dealing with suicide on a psychiatric inpatient unit. In D. Jacobs & H. N. Brown (Eds.), Suicide: Understanding and responding: Harvard Medical School perspectives (pp. 405-413). Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Dunne, E. J. (1987). A response to suicide in the mental health setting. In E. J. Dunne, J. L. McIntosh, & K. L. Dunne-Maxim, (Eds.), Suicide and its aftermath: Understanding and counseling the survivors (pp. 182-190). New York: W. W. Norton.
Farberow, N. L. (2001). The therapist-clinician as survivor. In O. Grad (Ed.), Suicide risk and protective factors in the new millennium (pp. 11-21). Ljubljana, Slovenia, Cankarjev.dom.
Foster, B. (1987). Suicide and the impact on the therapist. In J. L. Sacksteder, D. P. Schwartz, & Y. Akabane (Eds.), Attachment and the therapeutic process: Essays in honor of Otto Allen Will, Jr., M.D. (pp. 197-204). Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Getz, W. L., Allen, D. B., Myers, R. K., & Lindner, K. C. (1983). Brief counseling with suicidal persons (pp. 145-159). Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, Chapter 12, "When a client commits suicide."
Gitlin, M. (2006). Psychiatrist reactions to patient suicide. In R.I. Simon & R.E. Hales (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management (pp. 477-492). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
NEW Grad O. T. (2009). Therapists as survivors of suicide loss. In: D. Wasserman & C. Wasserman (Eds.) Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention: A Global Perspective (pp. 609-613). New York: Oxford University Press.
Grad, O. T., & Zavasnik, A. (1998). The caregiver's reactions after suicide of a patient. In R. J. Kosky, H. S. Eshkevari, R. D. Goldney, & R. Hassan (Eds.), Suicide prevention: The global context (pp. 287-291). New York: Plenum Press.
** Jones, F. A., Jr. (1987). Therapists as survivors of client suicide. In E. J. Dunne, J. L. McIntosh & K. L. Dunne-Maxim (Eds.), Suicide and its aftermath: Understanding and counseling the survivors (pp. 126-141). New York: W. W. Norton.
Kapoor, A. (2002, August). Client suicide and its effect on the therapist In S. Palmer (Ed.), Suicide: Strategies and interventions for reduction and prevention (pp. 124-136). London: Routledge.
NEW Kaslow, N. J., & Aronson, S. G. (2001).The consequences of caring: Mutual healing of family and therapists following a suicide. In S. H. McDaniel, D.-D. Lusterman, & C. L. Philpot (Eds.), Casebook for integrating family therapy: An ecosystemic approach (pp. 373-383). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Kleespies, P. M., Niles, B. L., Mori, D. L., & Deleppo, J. D. (1998). Emergencies with suicidal patients: The impact on the clinician. In P. M. Kleespies (Ed.), Emergencies in mental health practice: Evaluation and management (pp. 379-397). New York: Guilford.
** Maltsberger, J. T. (1992). The implications of patient suicide for the surviving psychotherapist. In D. Jacobs (Ed.), Suicide and clinical practice (pp. 169-182). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Clinical Practice No. 21.
** Ruben, H. L. (1990). Surviving a suicide in your practice. In S. J. Blumenthal & D. J. Kupfer (Eds.), Suicide over the life cycle: Risk factors, assessment, and treatment of suicidal patients (pp. 619-636). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Sussman, M. B. (Ed.). (1995). A perilous calling: The hazards of psychotherapy practice. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons.
Tanney, B. (1995). After a suicide: A helper's handbook. In B. L. Mishara (Ed.), The impact of suicide (pp. 100-120). New York: Springer.
Valente, S. M. (2006). Correlates of suicide attempts and completions and the clinician's response to a patient's suicide. In M. E. Abelian (Ed.), Trends in psychotherapy research (pp. 71-96). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Vorkoper, C. F,. & Meade, J. (2005). Loss of a client to suicide: Suggestions for before and after a client suicide. In Katherine M. Hertlein & Dawn Viers (Eds.), The couple and family therapist's notebook: Homework, handouts, and activities for use in marital and family therapy (pp. 223-231). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Clinical Practice Press.
Weiner, K. M. (Ed.). (2005). Therapeutic and legal issues for therapists who have survived a client suicide: Breaking the silence. New York, NY: Haworth Press. 108 pp. ISBN 0-7890-2377-6. [Published also with the same pagination in the journal Women & Therapy, Volume 28(1), 2005. See also Spiegelman and Werth in Trainees section below]
Reviews of Weiner (2005):
Binder, R. (1978). Dealing with patients' suicides [Letter]. American Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 1113.
Markowitz, J. C. (1990). Attending the funeral of a patient who commits suicide [Letter]. American Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 122-123.
Pruett, G. L. (2003, August). Reflections on psychiatric inpatient suicide: Comment [Comment/Reply, Letter]. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 9(4), 107.
II. Mental Health and Other Professionals as Survivors - Suicide During Training/Suicide of Student Clients
II A. Journal Articles
Biermann, B. (2003). When depression becomes terminal: The impact of patient suicide during residency. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31, 443-457.
** Brown, H. (1987). Patient suicide during residency training (I): Incidence, implications, and program response. Journal of Psychiatric Education, 11, 201-216.
Brown, H. N. (1987). The impact of suicide on therapists in training. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 28, 101-113. [Balon, R. (1987). Letter. 28, 362.] ANNOTATION
Courtenay, K.P., & Stephens, J.P. (2001). The experience of patient suicide among trainees in psychiatry. Psychiatric Bulletin, 25, 51-52.
Coverdale, J. H., Roberts, L. W., & Louie, A. K. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: Emotional responses, ethics, and implications for training [Editorial]. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 329-332.
Davis, J. M., Bates, C., & Velasquez, R. (1990). Faculty suicide: Guidelines for effective coping with a suicide in a counselor-training program. Counselor Education Supervision, 29, 197-204.
De Heyn, E., Pieters, G., & Joos, S. (2004). Ervaringen van psychiaters in opleiding in Vlaanderen met suïcide van patiënten. [Trainee psychiatrists' encounters with suicide: A report from Flanders.] Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 46(9), pp. 579-587.
Dewar, I.G., Eagles, J.M., Klein, S., Gray, N., & Alexander, D.A. (2000). Psychiatric trainees' experiences of, and reactions to, patient suicide. British Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 20-23.
Dexter-Mazza, E. T., & Freeman, K. A. (2003). Graduate training and the treatment of suicidal clients: The students' perspective. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 33, 211-218.
Ellis, T.E., & Dickey, T.O. (1998). Procedures surrounding the suicide of a trainee's patient: A national survey of psychology internships and psychiatry residency programs. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 29, 492-497.
Ellis, T.E., Dickey, T.O., III, & Jones, E.C. (1998). Patient suicide in psychiatry residency programs: A national survey of training and postvention practices. Academic Psychiatry, 22, 181-189.
Fang, F., Kemp, J., Jawandha, A., Juros, J., Long, L., Nanayakkara, S., Stepansky, C., Thompson, L. B., & Anzia, J. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: A resident's experience. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 340-344.
Feldman, D. (1987). A social work student's reaction to client suicide. Social Casework, 68, 184-187. ANNOTATION
Foster, V.A., & McAdams, C.R., III. (1999). The impact of client suicide in counselor training: Implications for counselor education and supervision. Counselor Education & Supervision, 39, 22-33.
Hamaoka, D. A., Fullerton, C. S., Benedek, D. M., Gifford, R., Nam, T., & Ursano, R. J. (2007). Medical students' responses to an inpatient suicide: Opportunities for education and support. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 350-353.
Henn, R. F. (1978). Patient suicide as part of psychiatric residency. American Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 745-747.
Hilliard, I. A., & Ray, G. J. (1985). When a student's client commits suicide. Nursing and Health Care, 6, 498-501.
Kaltreider, N. B. (1990). The impact of a medical student's suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 20, 195-205.
Kleespies, P. M. (1993). The stress of patient suicidal behavior: Implications for interns and training programs in psychology. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 477-482.
** Kleespies, P. M., Penk, W. E., & Forsyth, J. P. (1993). The stress of patient suicidal behavior during clinical training: Incidence, impact, and recovery. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 293-303.
Kleespies, P. M., Smith, M. R., & Becker, B. R. (1990). Psychology interns as patient suicide survivors: Incidence, impact, and recovery. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 21, 257-263.
Knox, S., Burkard, A. W., Jackson, J. A., Schaack, A. M., & Hess, S. A. (2006, October). Therapists-in-Training Who Experience a Client Suicide: Implications for Supervision. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 37(5), 547-557.
Kozlowska, K., Nunn, K., & Cousens, P. (1997). Adverse experience in psychiatric training, Part 2. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 31, 641-652. [instrument development presented in Kozlowska, K., Nunn, K., & Cousens, P. (1997). Training in psychiatry: An examination of trainee perceptions, Part 1. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 31, 628-640]
Krueger, D. W. (1979). Patient suicide: Model for medical student teaching and mourning. General Hospital Psychiatry, 1, 229-233.
Lafayette, Jennifer M. & Stern, Theodore A. (2004, January). The Impact of a Patient's Suicide on Psychiatric Trainees: A Case Study and Review of the Literature. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 12(1), 49-55.
Misch, D.A. (2003). When a psychiatry resident's patient commits suicide: Transference trials and tribulations. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31, 459-475.
Pieters, G., De Gucht, V., Joos, G., & De Heyn, E. (2003, November). Frequency and impact of patient suicide on psychiatric trainees. European Psychiatry, 18(7), 345-349.
Pilkinton, P., & Etkin, M. (2003). Encountering suicide: The experience of psychiatric residents. Academic Psychiatry, 27, 93-99.
Reeves G. (2003). Terminal mental illness: resident experience of patient suicide. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31, 429-441.
Ruskin R. (2004, Summer). Impact of patient suicide on psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees. Academic Psychiatry: The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association for Academic Psychiatry, 28(2), 104-110.
Sacks, M. H., Kibel, H. D., Cohen, A. M., Keats, M., & Turnquist, K. N. (1987). Resident response to patient suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Education, 11, 217-226.
Schwartz, A., Kaslow, N. J., & McDonald, W. M. (2007). Encountering patient suicide: A requirement of the residency program curriculum. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 338-339.
Spiegelman, J. S. (2001, January/February). Losing a client to suicide: The experience of a new clinician. The Los Angeles Psychologist, 12-13. [personal account - this is a revised version of the personal account that appears at this Task Forces' site]
Spiegelman, J. S. & Werth, J. L., Jr. (2005). Don't forget about me: The experiences of therapists-in-training after a client has attempted or died by suicide. Women & Therapy, 28(1), 35-57. [Appears also In K. M. Weiner (Ed.), Therapeutic and legal issues for therapists who have survived a client suicide: Breaking the silence (pp. 35-57). New York, NY: Haworth Press.]
Sudak, D., Roy, A., Sudak, H., Lipschitz, A., Maltsberger, J., & Hendin, H. (2007). Deficiencies in suicide training in primary care specialties: A survey of training directors. Academic Psychiatry, 31, 345-349.
Twiname, B. G., & Creed, V. M. (1990). Techniques for surviving a student's suicide. Journal of Nursing Education, 29, 418-419.
Yousaf, F., Hawthorne, M., & Sedgwick, P. (2002, February). Impact of patient suicide on psychiatric trainees. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(2), 53-55.
Brown, H. N. (1989). Patient suicide and therapists in training. In D. Jacobs & H. N. Brown (Eds.), Suicide: Understanding and responding: Harvard Medical School perspectives (pp. 415-434). Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
III. Mental Health and Other Professionals - Surviving the Suicide of a Colleague
III A. Journal Articles
Davis, M. M. (1990). Coping with a coworker's suicide [Editorial]. Personnel Journal, 69(6), 40, 43, 45, 47.
Mericle, B. P. (1993, September). When a colleague commits suicide [Interview with C. Clair-Gajewski]. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 31(9), 11-13.
Thompson, J., & Brooks, S. (1990, October). When a colleague commits suicide: How the staff reacts. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 28(10), 6-11.
IV. Mental Health and Other Professionals - Surviving the Suicide of a Family Member or Friend
IV A. Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Anonymous. (2001). Erfahrungen und Überlegungen eines hinterbliebenen Psychiaters. Zum Suizid in Psychiaterfamilien [Experiences and thoughts of a survivor psychiatrist. Suicide in psychiatrists' families.] Psychiatrische Praxis, 28, 353-356.
Joiner, T. (2005). Prologue: Losing my dad. In T. Joiner, Why people die by suicide (pp. 1-15). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Treadway, D. C. (1996). Dead reckoning. New York: Basic Books. [therapist whose mother died by suicide]
Shahzad, K. (1998). The suicide of a friend. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 28, 322-323. [personal account - psychiatric resident]
Weiss, W. A. (1987). Suicide in the therapist's family of origin. In E. J. Dunne, J. L. McIntosh & K. L. Dunne-Maxim (Eds.), Suicide and its aftermath: Understanding and counseling the survivors (pp. 121-125). New York: W. W. Norton.
V. Suicide Among Mental Health and Other Professionals - Surviving the Suicide of a Therapist
V A. Journal Articles
Ables, B. S. (1974). The loss of a therapist through suicide. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 13, 143-152.
Ballenger, J. C. (1978). Patients' reactions to the suicide of their psychiatrist. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 166, 859-867.
Chiles, J. A. (1974). Patient reactions to the suicide of a therapist. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 28, 115-121.
Graves, J. S. (1978). Adolescents and their psychiatrist's suicide. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 17, 521-532.
Reynolds, J., Jennings, G., & Branson, M. L. (1997). Patients' reactions to the suicide of a psychotherapist. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 176-181.
Simon, W. (1986). Suicide among physicians: Prevention und postvention. Crisis, 7, 1-13.
Dunne, E. J. (1987). Surviving the suicide of a therapist. In E. J. Dunne, J. L. McIntosh, & K. L. Dunne-Maxim, (Eds.), Suicide and its aftermath: Understanding and counseling the survivors (pp. 142-148). New York: W. W. Norton.
VI. Attitudes Toward Therapists Who Have Lost a Client to Suicide
Peterson, E. M., Luoma, J. B., & Dunne, E. (2002). Suicide survivors' perceptions of the treating clinician. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 32, 158-166.
VII. Suicide and Malpractice / Legal Issues and Liability
Bongar, B. (2001). The suicidal patient: Clinical and legal standards of care (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN 978-1-55798-761-7 (1st edition, 1991)
Gutheil, T. G. (1999). Liability issues and liability prevention in suicide. In D. G. Jacobs (Ed.), The Harvard Medical School guide to suicide assessment and intervention (pp. 561-578). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gross, B. (2005, Spring). Death throes: Professional liability after client suicide. Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, 8(1), 34-35.
Jobes, D. A., & Berman, A. L. (1993). Suicide and malpractice liability: Assessing and revising policies, procedures, and practice in outpatient settings. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24, 91-99.
Scott, Charles L. & Resnick, Phillip J. (2006). Patient suicide and litigation. In: Robert I. Simon & Robert E. Hales (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management (pp. 527-544). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Simon, R. I. (2004, May). Patient Suicide and Litigation. Psychiatric Times, 21(5), 18-21.
Lewis, L. M. (2007). No-harm contracts: A review of what we know. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 50-57.
NEW Sanders, S., Ting, L., Power, J. & Jacobson, J. M. (2006). Social workers’ view of No Suicide Contracts. Social Work in Mental Health, 4, 51-66.
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