Van der Hallen Ruth, Godor Brian P
Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Omega (Westport). 2024 May;89(1):347-361. doi: 10.1177/00302228211073213. Epub 2022 Jan 31.
Client suicide refers to cases where a mental health practitioner is exposed, affected, or bereaved by a client's suicide and is known to have a profound impact on MHPs. The current study investigated the role of coping styles in understanding short- and long-term impact of client suicide. An international sample of 213 mental health practitioners who experienced a client suicide completed a survey on coping strategies (i.e., Brief-COPE) and the impact of traumatic events (i.e., impact of event scale-revised, long-term emotional impact scale and professional practice impact scale). Results indicate coping strategies explain 51% of the short-term, 64% of the long-term emotional and 55% of the long-term professional differences in impact of client suicide. Moreover, while an Avoidant coping style predicted more impact of client suicide, Positive coping and Humor predicted less impact of client suicide. Social Support coping did not predict impact of client suicide. Implications for both research and clinical practice are discussed.
来访者自杀是指心理健康从业者遭遇来访者自杀事件、受到影响或经历丧亲之痛，且已知这会对心理健康从业者产生深远影响。本研究调查了应对方式在理解来访者自杀的短期和长期影响方面所起的作用。一个由213名经历过来访者自杀事件的国际心理健康从业者组成的样本，完成了一项关于应对策略（即简易应对方式问卷）以及创伤事件影响（即事件影响量表修订版、长期情绪影响量表和专业实践影响量表）的调查。结果表明，应对策略解释了来访者自杀影响中51%的短期差异、64%的长期情绪差异以及55%的长期专业差异。此外，回避型应对方式预示着来访者自杀的影响更大，而积极应对和幽默预示着来访者自杀的影响较小。社会支持应对方式并未预示来访者自杀的影响。文中讨论了该研究对研究和临床实践的启示。
