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Current Understandings of Suicide Survivor Issues: Research, Practice, and Plans

Report of the 1st International Suicide Postvention Seminar, September 8, 2006, Portoroz, Slovenia

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910.28.4.211

The goals of the Postvention Taskforce of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) are to increase awareness of postvention and survivor issues. One of the strategies is to organize meetings. We report on the 1st International Suicide Postvention Seminar, held as a 1-day preevent at the 11th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior in Portoroz, Slovenia, September 2006. The seminar provided a state of the art review of the postvention field, with plenary presentations on research, psychotherapeutic care, development of national networks, and of postvention materials. We summarize the presentations below.

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