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The Effect of Suicide Loss on Clinicians and Organizations: Research and Response - Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Recorded)
Suicide rates continue to rise in the USA despite increased efforts at prevention and intervention. How to understand and respond to suicide loss survivors is an emerging field of research and clinical application to help mitigate some of the long-lasting effects of suicide on survivors. In this presentation I will review the demographics of suicide and how these inform our understanding of the population of suicide loss survivors and the fallout one suicide death has on individuals, families, communities, and organizations. The findings of an empirical study of psychotherapists who have had a patient in treatment die by suicide are presented. Finally, understanding and responding to individuals and organizations following the suicide of a patient are reviewed.
Target Audience
______ Introductory ____X__ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Describe three experiences specific to suicide loss survivors.
- Describe three research based findings on the effect of patient suicide on clinicians.
- Identify two effective postvention responses to suicide loss in organizations.
Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research. A board-certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst, Dr. Tillman is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and a Teaching Associate in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tillman’s research and writing is primarily focused on understanding states of mind related to suicide, changes over time in suicidal patients, the intergenerational transmission of suicide, and postvention with psychotherapists and organizations following the suicide of a patient.
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