Welcome to the website where you will find copies of our results from the child loss survey.

As new reports and conference presentations are produced we will post them here for your information. At the time of this writing March, 2009, five articles have been accepted for publication. 

Internet Support Groups for Suicide Survivors: A New Mode for Gaining Bereavement Assistance (Omega, 57 (3) 217-243, 2008)

Surviving After Suicide Loss: The Healing Potential of Suicide Survivor Support Groups (Illness, Crisis & Loss, 16 (4) 285-303, 2008)

Stigmatization and Suicide Bereavement (Death Studies, 33: 591-608, 2009) 

How They Died, Time Since Loss and Bereavement: Outcomes  (Omega, 58 (4) 251-273, 2008-2009)

Personal Growth After a Suicide Loss (Omega, 59 (3) 181-202, 2009)

There are also shorter articles briefly summarizing some of our longer papers and other papers, as well . One appeared in the Nov. 2007 issue of Surviving Suicide. Another appeared in the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) Postvention Taskforce Newsletter, Oct. 2008; another appeared in Surviving Suicide, Fall, 2009.

Internet Support Groups for Survivors of Suicide, Surviving Suicide, Nov. 2007.

The Stigma of Suicide and How it Affects Survivors' Healing article in IASP Postvention Taskforce Newsletter, (Vol.2, No. 5, Oct. 2008)

Japanese Survivor Support Groups: A Newly Emerging Phenomenon, Surviving Suicide, Fall, 2009.

We have converted all papers and presentations to PDF files. PDFs will work on any computer--whether a Macintosh or a PC type. You will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program from Adobe.com to view these works. If you don't already have this program installed on your computer, visit the adobe website site Adobe.com and follow their directions to acquire this free software, download it, install it onto your machine. Once your machine knows it has this program onboard, simply click on the document title and the reader program will open it for you for viewing or printing.