title: [Suicide postvention: what mental health professionals need to know].
abstract: Postvention is the term used to describe a package of interventions designed for people affected by suicide. Inpatient suicides in Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are rare, but nevertheless constitute an immense burden to family members, friends, and fellow patients, as well as to medical staff members. Besides including an effective management of the acute crisis situation with well-defined communication rules, appropriate interaction with the bereaved, and prevention of copycat suicides in other patients, reliable guidelines for dealing with inpatient suicide must also contain a precise procedure on how to handle mental stress in physicians, psychotherapists, and other staff members. Furthermore, postvention should be an important part of the professional training of physicians as well as psychotherapists who work in child and adolescent psychiatry departments or outpatient clinics.
authors.affiliation: 1 Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Marburg und Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.affiliation: 1 Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Marburg und Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Manthey
authors.affiliation: 2 Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaess
authors.affiliation: 3 AGUS e. V. - Angehörige um Suizid, Bayreuth.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brockmann
authors.affiliation: 4 Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau, Aschaffenburg.|5 Nationales Suizidpräventionsprogramm für Deutschland (NaSPro), AG Kinder und Jugendliche.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.affiliation: 6 Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim.
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Plener
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D003142:Communication; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007318:Inservice Training; D010819:Physician's Role; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
keywords: copycat suicides; inpatient suicide; postvention; suicide; suicide survivors