Support groups for children and adolescents bereaved by suicide: Lots of interventions, little evidence.
Though many different interventions are proposed for suicide-bereaved children and adolescents, few data exist concerning their efficiency. This literature review focused on psychosocial interventions specifically targeting children and adolescents bereaved by suicide to try to provide some validate therapeutic guidelines propositions for clinicians. We only found two articles specifically targeting children or adolescents: both of them seemed to show some efficacy in reducing some psychosocial variables (anxiety, depression…) in suicide-bereaved children but results were limited by methodological problems. This review failed to provide evidence-based guidelines propositions for suicide-bereaved children and underline the crucial need for research in this field.
CHU de Toulouse, Hôpital La Grave, Service Universitaire de Psychiatre de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (SUPEA), TSA60033, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
Katia
K
Journot-Reverbel
CHU de Toulouse, Hôpital La Grave, Service Universitaire de Psychiatre de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (SUPEA), TSA60033, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
Jean-Philippe
JP
Raynaud
Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Eric
E
Bui
CHU de Toulouse, Hôpital La Grave, Service Universitaire de Psychiatre de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (SUPEA), TSA60033, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France. Electronic address: revet.a@chu-toulouse.fr.
Alexis
A
Revet
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*
Literature review; Program evaluation; Suicide-bereaved children