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  • Forgiveness and Blame Among Suicide Survivors: A Qualitative Analysis on Reports of 4-Year Self-Help-Group Meetings

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    Author(s)
    Testoni, Ines
    Francescon, Elisa
    De Leo, Diego
    Santini, Anna
    Zamperini, Adriano
    Griffith University Author(s)
    De Leo, Diego
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    This article presents the qualitative analysis of reports obtained through participant observations collected over a 4-year period in a series of suicide survivor self-help group meetings. It analysed how grievers’ healing was managed by their own support. The longitudinal study was focused on self/other blame and forgiveness. Results show how self-blame was continuously present along all the period and how it increased when new participants entered the group. This finding indicates that self-blame characterizes especially the beginning of the participation, and that any new entrance rekindles the problem. However, no ...
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    This article presents the qualitative analysis of reports obtained through participant observations collected over a 4-year period in a series of suicide survivor self-help group meetings. It analysed how grievers’ healing was managed by their own support. The longitudinal study was focused on self/other blame and forgiveness. Results show how self-blame was continuously present along all the period and how it increased when new participants entered the group. This finding indicates that self-blame characterizes especially the beginning of the participation, and that any new entrance rekindles the problem. However, no participant had ever definitively demonstrated self-forgiveness, while a general forgiveness appeared when self-blame stopped. It is also suggested how to facilitate the elaboration of self-blame and forgiveness.
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    Journal Title
    Community Mental Health Journal
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-018-0291-3
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Community Mental Health Journal, 2018 pp. 1-9. Community Mental Health Journal is available online at: http://link.springer.com// with the open URL of your article.
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Psychology
    Other psychology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/377523
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