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Glossary of Suicide Terminology

ABANDONMENT – Unilateral discontinuation of patient treatment by a clinician. ABNORMAL GRIEF – Prolonged, difficult, complicated response associated with traumatic loss. ACTIVE LISTENING – Hotline technique to reaffirm what caller says he/she feels. ACUTE – Sharp,...

Reading List

These are books that helped us with short reviews My Son My Son by Iris Bolton- A health care professional loses her son to suicide. She survives by helping others. Beck, Aaron. Cognitive Therapy of Depression Outlines therapy for the professional counselor but...
ADVICE FOR RECENT LOSS

ADVICE FOR RECENT LOSS

To The Newly Bereaved After SuicideBy LaRita Archibald, Founder of HEARTBEAT Groups for mutual support for survivors in the aftermath of suicide 2015 Devon Street, Colorado Springs CO 80909 Grieving is a unique, lonely, extremely painful process with each individual...

SOS MANIFESTO

I will not get over this regardless of how much time has passed. There is a wound in my heart that will never heal. I will speak my loved ones name whenever I wish. They existed- a beautiful person and I will not allow them to be forgotten. I will cry for my loved one...