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On September 15, 2011, some of the world's leading experts in suicide crisis response gathered together to explore some of the difficult aspects in "postvention" (what we do after a suicide to provide psychological first aid and minimizing the tragic impact in individuals and communities). In this video representatives from Australia, Thailand, Slovenia, New Zealand, UK, Japan, Belgium, and the USA discuss some of the goals and strategies of postvention work that appear to sometimes work against each other or cause confusion. This conversation was part of the International Association of Suicide Prevention's Annual Congress held in Beijing, China.

Tensions in Postvention Part I: How Do We Honor Loss While Preventing Contagion After Suicide?

Aftermath of Suicide Tensions in Postvention

Co-Chairs

Co-Chair and contact person: Karl Andriessen

Karl Andriessen

Co-Chair: Sean McCarthy

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Task Force Minutes

Papers:

Andriessen K: Suicide survivors activities: an international perspective
Andriessen K: How to increase suicide survivor support? Experiences from the national survivor programme in Flanders - Belgium (pdf)

2nd International Suicide Postvention Seminar 28th August 2007 (pdf) - Killarney, Ireland


Karl Andriessen, Co-Chair
p/a Suicide Prevention Project
Martelaarslaan 204b
9000 Gent, Belgium
Tel: + 32 9 233 5099
Fax: + 32 9 233 3589
Email: iasp-tf-postvention@pandora.be

Karl Andriessen (MSuicidology) is Coordinator of the Suicide Prevention Project of the Mental Health Centres in Flanders-Belgium. The project aims to increase and to improve the care that is provided to suicidal people, in the Mental Health Centres and in other community resources.

He is a past Director of the Flemish Suicide Prevention Centre, where he started to work in 1988. Amongst other projects he led the Belgian national study (2000-1) on the needs of suicide survivors and suicide bereavement service delivery. He was the Vice-Chair of the Flemish Working Group of Suicide Survivors (2000-6), and he convened the 1st International Suicide Postvention Seminar on 8 September 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia. Recipient of the IASP 2005 Farberow Postvention Award.


Sean McCarthy, Co-Chair
Regional Suicide Resource Officer
Front Block
St Patrick's Hospital
John's Hill, Waterford
Ireland
Tel: 00 353 51 874013
Email: sean.mccarthy@hse.ie

Sean currently works with the Health Service Executive in Ireland as a Regional Suicide Resource Officer. He is responsible for the implementation of recommendations contained within the Irish National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention 'Reach Out', at a regional level. These recommendations encompass suicide prevention at the levels of prevention, intervention and postvention. He was a member of the steering committee that developed the national strategy and also contributed to the suicide prevention strand of the national mental health strategy "a vision for change". He has worked in the field of suicidology since 1998.

For a number of years he was seconded to Console (www.console.ie) as their Chief Executive Officer. Console is the leading national suicide bereavement support organisation in Ireland and provides one to one counselling, group support, child psychotherapy services alongside telephone support for the bereaved and those at risk of suicide or suicidal behaviour. During his time there he was responsible for the development of national standards for bereavement support organisations operating in Ireland. This work was commissioned by the National Office for Suicide Prevention.