The Diary of Dr. Sharon McDonnell aged 53 and 3/4
The following brief list provides details of where people bereaved by suicide can seek information and support in the UK. Help is at Hand: A Resource for People Bereaved by Suicide or Traumatic Death...
I work in the Centre for Mental Health and Risk at the University of Manchester which is the largest suicide prevention research unit internationally. I am currently in the early stages of developing the...
Must say I am absolutely thrilled with the response that I have had to my blog, especially, the number of people who have taken the time to read it and provide such positive feedback. ...
So where shall I begin? My life before my brother died, my experience of being bereaved by suicide, my work as a researcher, my vision to develop the first suicide bereavement research unit in...
I have been so busy informing you of what I have learnt in Australia and New Zealand during my Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship, that I have failed to tell you about the research that my team and...
Post 2 of 5 Dr. Myf Maple is an Associate Professor in the School of Health at the University of New England (UNE) and is considered to be the leading postvention researcher in Australia....
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” (Nelson Mandela) I have just returned to the UK after completing my Winston Churchill Travel...
The following brief list provides details of where people bereaved by suicide can seek information and support in the UK. Help is at Hand: A Resource for People Bereaved by Suicide or Traumatic Death...
Currently, there are very few researchers in the UK who specialise in suicide bereavement. In fact, when I was conducting my PhD, I didn’t know of anyone in the UK who was working in...
Post 3of 4 ‘StandBy’ has recently developed a short term (eight week) model of support for communities that have experienced suicide clusters and/or contagion. This service is aptly referred to as a Critical Postvention Response...
Post 2 of 4 It was a real honour to meet Jill Fisher as she is recognised as one of the leaders in the field of postvention. Jill has received several accolades in recognition of...
My next meeting was with Jill Fisher who is employed by ‘United Synergies’ to address the needs of those bereaved by suicide. Whilst the main purpose of my meeting was to learn about the...
I arranged to meet Sandra Palmer who is a registered trauma counsellor who has been involved in the development of the Clinical Advisory Services Aotearoa Ltd (CASA) which is based in Auckland, New Zealand....
I met Gilli Sinclair in Auckland, New Zealand, to learn about the excellent postvention service that she has developed, which aims to support young people/schools when a pupil has died by suicide. Gilli is...
28 Feb, 2014
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