@article{ref1,
title="Suicide response guidelines for residency trainees: a novel postvention response for the care and teaching of psychiatry residents who encounter suicide in their patients",
journal="Academic psychiatry",
year="2015",
author="Cazares, Paulette T. and Santiago, Patcho and Moulton, David and Moran, Scott and Tsai, Albert",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="393-397",
abstract="Suicide is an event that is almost universally encountered by psychiatrists and psychiatry residents. Because psychiatric patients are at a higher risk for completing suicide than patients of other specialties, psychiatry residents are at risk for experiencing the suicide of a patient during their training. A review of the literature shows that there is continually growing research into the negative emotional effects of patient suicides on psychiatry residents and the need for clear response protocols when a suicide occurs, also known as postvention protocols. However, there are no Graduate Medical Education requirements to specifically train psychiatry residents about this, even with a well-voiced desire by residents to receive this training. In the National Capitol Consortium Psychiatry Residency, encounters with patient suicides by residents in a time of war led us to a place in which interventions were designed and instituted to care for the caregiver, in this case focusing on psychiatry trainees. Our process and product, described here, offers an example of a systematic postvention response. It addresses aspects of what is known in the research base, combined with acknowledgement of the human response and the institutional need for a consistent and objective response.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1042-9670",
doi="10.1007/s40596-015-0352-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40596-015-0352-7"
}