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

Breaking the Silence

Author: Kayla Weiner
ISBN: 9780789023773

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 guideli

Publisher: Haworth Press
Publish Date: 2005

Subjects: Medical / Psychiatry / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)