SUPPORT GROUPS

• Coping After Suicide Support Groups  https://www.copingaftersuicide.com/support-groups

• Dougy Center National Support Group Directory  https://www.dougy.org/program-finder

• National Alliance for Children’s Grief National Support Group Directory https://nacg.org/find-support/

• Samaritans’ SafePlace  https://samaritanshope.org/our-services/grief-support/grief-request-form/

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GRIEF CAMPS

• Article: As Suicide Rates Rise, Bereavement Camps Bring Healing to Kids Left Behind    https://time.com/6286420/suicide-bereavement-camps-kids/

• Documentary: ONE LAST HUG (… and a few smooches): Three Days at Grief Camp  http://onelasthug.com/

• Camp Erin  https://elunanetwork.org/

• Camp Good Grief  https://eehcampgoodgrief.org

• Camp Kita  https://www.thekitacenter.org/

• Circle Camps   https://www.circlecamps.org/

• Comfort Zone Camp https://comfortzonecamp.org

• The Compassionate Friends Sibling Camp  https://www.compassionatefriends.org/tcf-sibling-camp/

• Experience Camps  https://experiencecamps.org/

• National Alliance for Children’s Grief  https://nacg.org/find-support/

• TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) Good Grief Camp   https://www.taps.org/youthprograms/camps#ggc

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BOOKS

• Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers. Dr. Alan Wolfelt

• Life After Suicide: Finding Courage, Comfort & Community After Unthinkable Loss. Jennifer Ashton MD

• Please Be Patient, I'm Grieving: How to Care For and Support the Grieving Heart (Good Grief Series). Gary Roe

• Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone. Janine Kwoh

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ONLINE RESOURCES

• Dougy Center: National Grief Center for Children & Families https://www.dougy.org/grief-support-resources/teens

• National Alliance for Children's Grief   https://nacg.org/

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network  https://www.nctsn.org/

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ARTICLES

• Children, Teens and Suicide Loss - Dougy Center & American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  https://aws-fetch.s3.amazonaws.com/flipbooks/childrenteenssuicideloss/index.html?page=6

• Explaining Death by Suicide Years After It Happened - Alliance of Hope
  https://allianceofhope.org/find-support/children-teens/supporting-children-and-teens-after-a-suicide-death/explaining-death-by-suicide-years-after-it-happened/

• Supporting Adolescents: Common Experiences After a Suicide - Lifeline - Australia
  https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/lost-someone-to-suicide/supporting-adolescents-bereaved-by-suicide/

• Supporting Children After the Suicide of a Classmate - Jamie Howard, PhD
  https://childmind.org/article/supporting-children-after-the-suicide-of-a-classmate/

• Supporting Children and Teens after a Suicide Death - Dougy Center
  https://www.dougy.org/assets/uploads/TDC_Supporting_Children__Teens_After_a_Suicide_Death_2018.pdf

• Supporting Children Grieving a Death by Suicide - National Alliance for Children's Grief
  https://indd.adobe.com/view/797974f7-5353-4834-b48c-cefe12464ded

• Talking to Teens about the Suicide of a Peer - Alliance of Hope
  https://allianceofhope.org/find-support/children-teens/supporting-children-and-teens-after-a-suicide-death/talking-to-teens-about-the-suicide-of-a-peer/

• Tips for Supporting Teens After the Death of a Close Friend - Dougy Center   https://www.dougy.org/assets/uploads/TDC_2_Tips_for_Supporting_the_Grieving_Teen_After_Loss_of_Close_Friend_2018.pdf

• Trauma-Informed Care and Suicide - Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
  https://suicideprevention.ca/resource/trauma-informed-care-and-suicide-fact-sheet/

• Traumatic Grief - Supporting Teens - National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/trauma-types/traumatic-grief

• What to Say Instead - Dougy Center
  https://www.dougy.org/assets/uploads/What-to-say-instead_2023-05-30-225306_bvnt.pdf

 

RESEARCH

• Andriessen K, Krysinska K, Rickwood D, Pirkis J. "It Changes Your Orbit": The Impact of Suicide and Traumatic Death on Adolescents as Experienced by Adolescents and Parents. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 14;17(24):9356. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17249356. PMID: 33327577; PMCID: PMC7765017.

• Andriessen, K, Krysinska, K, Hill, NTM et al. Effectiveness of interventions for people bereaved through suicide: a systematic review of controlled studies of grief, psychosocial and suicide-related outcomes. BMC Psychiatry 19, 49 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2020-z

• Cain, AC (2002). Children of Suicide: The Telling and the Knowing. Psychiatry. 65. 124-36. 10.1521/psyc.65.2.124.19937. 

• Cerel, J, & Aldrich, RS (2011). The impact of suicide on children and adolescents. In J. R. Jordan & J. L. McIntosh (Eds.), Grief After Suicide: Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors (pp. 81–92). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

• Cerel, J, Maple, M, Aldrich, RS, & van de Venne, J (2013). Exposure to suicide and identification as survivor: Results from a random-digit dial survey. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 34(6), 413–419. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000220​

• Cerel, J, Roberts, TA, & Nilsen, WJ (2005). Peer Suicidal Behavior and Adolescent Risk Behavior. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193(4), 237–243. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nmd.0000158377.45920.0a​

• Hagström, AS (2017). ‘Suicide stigma’ renegotiated: Storytelling, social support and resistance in an Internet-based community for the young suicide-bereaved. Qualitative Social Work 16(6), 775-792. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325016644039

• Hagström, AS (2019). “Why did he choose to die?”: A meaning-searching approach to parental suicide bereavement in youth. Death Studies, 43(2), 113–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1457604

• McNiel, A and Gabbay, P (2018) Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children, A Practical Guide for Professionals. Springer Publishing Company 

• Moore MM, Cerel J, Jobes DA. Fruits of trauma? Posttraumatic growth among suicide-bereaved parents. Crisis. 2015;36(4):241-8. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000318. PMID: 26440620.

• Requarth, M (2013). After a Parent's Suicide: Helping Children Heal. Healing Hearts Press