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"Patient Suicide Can Exact
Huge Toll on Clinicians"
~ Aaron Levin
"When a patient commits suicide,
The event sets in motion
A train of personal and professional consequences
That can be anticipated
And planned for like other adverse events."
January 21, 2005
Volume 40 Number 2
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"... if psychiatrists are only a flip
of the coin away from having
a patient commit suicide,
perhaps the profession
should build preparation
for dealing with it
into the residency curriculum,
argued Plakun.
Simon, author of Suicide Risk,
published in 2004
by American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.,
advised new residents ~
'Be sure you learn how
to do a competent, systematic,
suicide-risk assessment.'
Besides assessing and treating suicidal patients,
training should include lectures
and role playing to improve young clinicians'
understanding of the aftermath
of suicidal events,
added Plakun.
Once a suicide occurs,
Plakun advised clinicians to seek consultation
and support and to avoid isolation.
'Recognize that you won't be able
to think clearly about it for a while,'
he said.
'Too often therapists deal with this
in isolation rather than risk difficulties
with colleagues.
It's hard to talk about it with them.'
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More than the usual morbidity
and mortality conference is needed,
however.
Plakun also recommended that clinicians
find a 'secure, peer-reviewed, protected space'
to consider the event as
a traumatic experience
affecting both the therapist
and the entire staff."
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/
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