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- Title
Confidential grief: How counselors cope with client suicide.
- Authors
Salpietro, Lena; Ausloos, Clark D.; Clark, Madeline; Zacarias, Rosalyn; Perez, Jacob
- Abstract
We engaged in this study to better understand how counselors cope with and process client suicide. A researcher who also experienced a client suicide conducted interviews with licensed professional counselors (N = 7). Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, we identified eight superordinate themes: (a) professional counseling culture, (b) intense emotional reaction, (c) processing loss, (d) supports, (e) barriers, (f) impairment, (g) disillusionment, and (h) finding meaning. Findings have implications for the counseling profession, counselor educators, agencies and supervisors, counselors, and counselors‐in‐training.
- Subjects
GRIEF; SUICIDE; CULTURE; COUNSELING; SOCIAL support; COUNSELORS; CLIENT relations; PHYSICIANS' attitudes; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; THEMATIC analysis; EMOTIONS; BEREAVEMENT
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 2023, Vol 101, Issue 4, p461
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jcad.12484