Suicide is an unexpected and violent death that brings unlimited sufferings for deceased family. Each suicide has the deleterious, devastating and far-reaching effects on the functioning of suicide loss survivors such as families, friends and communities left behind. The suicide survivors tend to have a serious form of bereavement. Statistics shows that as a minimum six beloved ones are directly affected by each suicidal death. Another statistics illustrates that about 48 million people every year are found to have experience of suicide bereavement globally. On the other hand, 11,000 people kill themselves every year in Bangladesh. But literature within suicide bereavement and its prevention is still limited because of paucity of methodologically vigorous studies involving the people bereaved due to suicide. Hence, the present paper is an attempt to confer an indication of suicide bereavement and the prospective role of the clinical social work for supporting the individuals bereaved through suicide. In doing so, literatures related to suicide bereavement were reviewed from the secondary sources of data and findings have been presented in this paper. This paper describes the affected people’s reactions in bereavement and the needs for provision of effective post-intervention support system for the families of the deceased. However, this paper concludes with few recommendations to make stronger and potential postvention to assist the governments, policy makers and other stakeholders, and some actionable measures for countries according to their available resources and context along with mentioning necessity of effective and time-bound practical support to promote recovery of individuals affected by suicide bereavement.

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Authors : Shahana Nasrin

Keywords : Suicide, Bereavement, Clinical Social Work, Postvention.