Postvention Alliance
Postvention Alliance
Advocates for Suicide Survivor Driven Support, Research, and Education

 

 

Postvention Alliance is USA based 501(c)4 NGO. This website exists as a public service to share knowledge of postvention practices and to encourage postvention efforts. It should not be understood as either recommendation or endorsement. Postvention Alliance offers no direct support through this website. If you or someone you know needs support, please contact the survivor support services in your area. Visitors may send an email to the address listed below.

“Postvention is to come after—that is, to do those things after the dire event has occurred that either (a) serve to mollify the after-effects of the event in the chief protagonist, specifically, to work with a person after [the person] has attempted suicide; or (b) deal with the inimical sequels in other persons affected by the event, for example, the family members of a [severely distressed] person or, in the case of a [death by] suicide, with the obvious mental health needs of the survivor-victims. I prefer ‘postvention’.” (Shneidman 1971, 452). Schneidman, Edwin S. “The Management of the Presuicidal, Suicidal, and Postsuicidal Patient .” Annals of Internal Medicine 75, no. 3 (1971): 441–58

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