title: Some notes on conducting a psychological autopsy.
abstract: This paper outlines procedures for conducting interviews with relatives of suicide victims or survivors of equivocal deaths, by means of the "psychological autopsy." A number of methodological recommendations are made which deal with training interviewers, contacting survivors and using experimental controls.
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*