MATES Respond Program: Peers Guiding Worksites Through Postvention and Critical Incident Support

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Thompson, Nicholas
Lacey, James
Robertson, Adam
Biggs, Amanda
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2025
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We write to you regarding the article, Westefeld and Rinaldi (2018). We presented at the 10th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health on the MATES Respond Program. We believe that this presentation and summary uses preventative elements of Joiner’s theory on suicide and interconnectivity as discussed as emerging accepted suicide theory in Westefeld and Rinaldi (2018). We argue that Joiner and Westefeld’s work is enhanced using interconnectivity and belonging as a preventive model of suicide prevention. We argue that peer support and broadening the skillset of reflective practice as a point of connection in workplace settings, is a transformative component of postvention support after a peer’s suicide further enhancing Westefeld and Rinaldi (2018) five key summary topics.

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Journal of Loss and Trauma

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30

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7

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This accepted manuscript is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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Applied and developmental psychology

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Thompson, N; Lacey, J; Robertson, A; Biggs, A, MATES Respond Program: Peers Guiding Worksites Through Postvention and Critical Incident Support, Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2025, 30 (7), pp. 999-1005

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