Portugal- First Steps of Postvention Practice and Research

• Autor(a) principal: Rothes, Inês
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Santos, José Carlos Pereira dos, Santos, Sara
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://web.esenfc.pt/?url=MQXisOME
• topic: Postvention; research; Practice

This chapter discusses the state of art of postvention in Portugal, organized into three sections: postvention at school, families bereaved by suicide, and impact of a patient suicide. The first section describes postvention activities in schools when a student dies by suicide. The second part summarizes the studies concerning families bereaved through suicide and implications for practice. The third section presents the research findings about the impact of a patient suicide on health professionals, and the help resources used by these professionals. Despite the major evolutions of the past decade, there remains a clear need to further implement postvention initiatives.