Handling suicidality and suicide in professional and personal contexts

Working with people in all kinds of different health contexts sometimes (or often) also means working with people standing on the edge of their lifes. Sometimes our clients decide to end their lifes inspite of all the... [ view full abstract ]

Working with people in all kinds of different health contexts sometimes (or often) also means working with people standing on the edge of their lifes. Sometimes our clients decide to end their lifes inspite of all the professional help and support they're being offered. Coping with these incidents is one of the most emotionally demanding challenges we come across in our daily work. But not only in our vocational context we are confronted with suicidality and suicide, as these are also society related phenomenons. With an annual number of approx. 1000 000 deaths by suicide worldwide, it becomes a topic important to face. Though it is not always possible to prevent a suicide, it is essential to find a personal as well as professional attitude towards it and develop a method of acting and prevention - exspecially in a professional context.