Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide

Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide: Breaking the Silence is your guide to the overlooked topic of surviving a patient suicide. The silence that surrounds a therapist after the death of a client can be shameful and debilitating. The authors of this courageous book mix first-person narratives with professional advice to help therapists deal with the emotional and legal consequences that follow the loss of a client. Over 30,000 suicides occur each year in the United States. The clear and specific legal and therapeutic guidelines you'll find in this book, as well as its philosophical discussions, make it a vital read for current and future mental health therapists, counselors, social workers, and agency supervisors.

Auteur

Weiner, Kayla

Résumé
The death of a patient is every therapist's worst nightmare. Even more frightening is the debilitating silence that surrounds a therapist after the death of a client. What do you do? How do you proceed with your personal and professional life? Until now, advice on surviving a patient's suicide has been scarce. This book examines this much-overlooked topic to help you continue to live and practice confidently. The authors of this courageous book mix first-person narratives with professional strategies to help therapists deal with the emotional and legal consequences that follow the loss of a client.Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide provides you with:models of coping strategies for clinicians after a client completes a suicidean examination of factors that compound the trauma for the therapist survivorexamples for dealing with a client's familysuggestions for developing curricula for training institutionsrecommendations for supervisory guidelinesexplanations of-and means of mitigating-legal liabilityThis practical book describes various ways of dealing with clinician and supervisory responsibilities after a client's self-inflicted death. It will show you how to minimize the legal risks of working with suicidal clients and help you regain your sense of professional competence if a suicide occurs. New methods of screening and treatment assistance are offered. With about 30,000 suicides occuring the the United States annually, and many of those people in treatment at or near the time they commit suicide, thousands of clinicians face this trauma yearly. The clear, specific, therapeutic and legal guidelines you'll find in the book, as well as the philosophical discussions, make it a vital read for therapists, counselors, social workers, nurses, supervisors, and educators in mental health training institutions.

Contenu

• Introduction: The Professional Is Personal (Kayla Miriyam Weiner)

• Surpassing the Quota: Multiple Suicides in a Psychotherapy Practice (Donna M. James)

• Who, What, When, Where, How, and Mostly Why? A Therapist's Grief Over the Suicide of a Client (Gail O. Anderson)

• Don't Forget About Me: The Experiences of Therapists-in-Training After a Client Has Attempted or Died by Suicide (Jason S. Spiegelman and James L. Werth, Jr.)

• Suggestions for Supervisors When a Therapist Experiences a Client's Suicide (Doreen Schultz)

• Therapists as Client Suicide Survivors (Onja T. Grad and Konrad Michel)

• Touching the Heart and Soul of Therapy: Surviving Client Suicide (Pam Rycroft)

• Suicide and the Law: A Practical Overview for Mental Health Professionals (Stephen R. Feldman, Staci H. Moritz, and G. Andrew H. Benjamin)

• Index

• Reference Notes Included