Staff response to inpatient and outpatient suicide: what happened and what do we do?
Inpatient or outpatient suicide may have a marked effect on the staff or therapist. After reviewing the literature, a practical, clinically-based protocol for managing such an event is described. Additionally, it places one event, the psychological autopsy, within the general context of post-suicide management.
Little
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Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003379:Countertransference; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention