@article{ref1,
title="Bereaved by suicide",
journal="Primary health care: open access",
year="2011",
author="Shahtahmasebi, Said and Aupouri-Mclean, Caroll",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="e 101-e 101",
abstract="Parents and family members are often treated as experimental or observational units from whom information can be gathered and inferences made about suicide survivors (family of a suicide case). Collecting data in this way limits the knowledge about suicide survivors' needs and how they can contribute to the suicide debate for the development of a suicide policy. It is not helpful to claim mental illness as the cause of suicide when the suicide rate decreases, and then claim that suicide is a very complex health outcome caused by many factors when the suicide rate increases. In this discussion paper, we argue that a suicide prevention model that places mental illness at the centre of the suicide debate only leads to a policy of 'more of the same', and will have little effect on suicide prevention and care support post-suicide (for suicide survivors). Furthermore, we argue that the contribution that suicide survivors can make to understanding suicide should not be ignored.<p />",
language="",
issn="2167-1079",
doi="10.4172/phcoa.1000101",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/phcoa.1000101"
}