Suicide and Its Aftermath: Understanding and Counseling the Survivors

by Edward J. Dunne, John L. McIntosh, Karen Dunne-Maxim (Editor)

Offers guidance to counselors on how to help the families and friends of suicides to overcome their feelings of grief and guilt

346 pages, Hardcover

First published July 17, 1987

Reviews

[Robert Bogue]

They don’t know what to say. My friends, colleagues, and acquaintances are at a loss for words when I tell them of our son’s death by suicide. While suicide ends the suffering of the person completing the act, it transfers that pain to those who survive. Suicide and Its Aftermath isn’t focused on assessment and prevention of suicide. Instead, it focuses on the impact to those left behind and their experience.

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