Client Suicide Impacts on Mental Health Providers

1 Client Suicide Impacts on Mental Health Providers: Annotated Bibliography Patient suicide has increasingly become a pervasive issue in the global community. The impact of patient suicide is overarching to affect the patient’s family and healthcare providers.

Analyzing different studies illuminates the short-term and long-term impacts of patient suicide on mental health providers and how the health issue can be solved.

Spruch-Feiner et al., (2022). Effects of patient suicide on professional practice among mental health providers.

The study aims to investigate the effect of patient suicide on clinicians and healthcare practitioners attending to them. The author used a retrospective study to compare the mental state of clinicians who had experienced patients’ death to clinicians who had not encountered such incidences. The primary study technique was a survey of 3157 healthcare practitioners from 169 healthcare facilities.

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2 The study revealed that 25% of clinicians who had lost their patients by suicide suffered from emotional and psychological health issues. According to the survey, one in every four healthcare providers who lost a patient by suicide suffered from anxiety and feeling of inadequacy. Other clinicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists who lost patients due to suicide also reported feeling they lacked adequate training to handle the clients. Similar insights were revealed by Gibbons et al. (2019). According to the study, psychiatrists who lost their patients due to suicide experienced negative effects on their emotional wellness. The latter study also revealed that psychiatrists who lost a patient due to suicide had their work life negatively impacted.

The article is broad in scope and expounds on the issue of patient suicide and how it influences the holistic wellness of the patient. Using an empirical research methodology also enhances the validity and reliability of the research findings allowing generalizability in a broader scope. The author also has significant authority in mental health. Spruch-Feiner and his colleagues work for the Department of Medicine and Health Science at the University of Columbia. The authors have also conducted numerous studies on mental health and hence, their authority in the study.

However, whereas the number of healthcare providers sampled was significant, all the healthcare practitioners evaluated on both impacts of patient suicide were from New York.

Limiting the geographical jurisdiction may restrict the triangulation of the findings.

Nevertheless, the article contains relevant empirical findings that will lay the basis of the proposed study on how client suicide impacts mental health providers.

3 Gibbons et al. (2019). Effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists: a required survey of experiences and support The authors purposed to investigate the effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists. The study's purpose was achieved by surveying 174 psychiatrists on the effects of patients' suicide on their mental and emotional well-being and how such patient suicide affected their clinical practice henceforth. The study's results were patients' suicide negatively affected psychiatrists' mental and emotional health. The surveyed psychiatrists also noted that losing a patient due to suicide negatively impacted their work life. Similar findings show that patients' suicide adversely affects clinicians' emotional and psychological states (Spruch-Feiner et al., 2022).

The study has multiple strengths, including being empirical in nature and hence verifiable. The authors also have credibility based on their expertise in the medical field. For instance, Gibbons (2019)is a member of the American Psychologists Association. His counterparts also lecture in the field of psychology, besides being licensed medical practitioners.

Such academic credibility enhances the validity and reliability of the research. However, the selected sample of 17 participants is relatively narrow in scope. This limits the generalizability of the study. Besides, the study also focused only on psychiatrists, which may not provide a comprehensive perspective of the effects of patient suicide on healthcare practitioners. The information in the article will, however, help supplement other sources in completing the proposed study on the effects of patients' health on mental health providers.

Van der Hallen, R. (2023). Suicide exposure and the impact of client suicide: a structural equation modeling approach.

Van der (2023) investigates the short-term and long-term implications of a patient’s suicide. The study also intended to examine the extent to which gender, years of experience, and

4 exposure to suicidality predicted the impact of a client's suicide in the short and long run. The study was completed using an international survey of 213 mental practitioners. The study revealed that a client's suicide has short-term and long-term implications for the practitioners involved. The study also revealed that the severity of the impact due to client suicide was higher in females than it was in men. However, the severity of the impact was relatively lower for experienced practitioners and those with previous exposure to suicidality. Similar study findings were revealed in the study by Gibbons (2019), confirming that client suicide increased anxiety among mental health providers. The study also validates the results that client suicide has more prolonged effects on the clinicians, such as diminished job satisfaction.

Ruth Van Der Hallen is a licensed psychologist working for the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She thus has authority and experience on the pervasive effect of client suicide and the corresponding implications. The study is also broad in scope and investigates both short-term and long-term implications of suicide. The study will therefore form the fundamental basis of the proposed research on client suicide and its impact on mental health providers.

Bohan, F., & Doyle, L. (2008). Nurses’ experiences of patient suicide and suicide attempts in an acute unit.

The authors discuss the implications of client suicide to nurses and other caregivers in an acute unit. The study was conducted by reviewing existing literature on the health issues of suicidality and its effects on healthcare givers. According to the study, the risk of client suicide in Ireland has been significantly increasing during the last 20 years. The major effects on practicing caregivers include increasing stress levels and anxiety. The research also revealed that repeated incidences of client suicide manifested various traumas to the caregivers, which increased the

5 risk of depression. The research was conducted and reported by Fiona Bohan and Louise Doyle, both working for the School of Nursing at Trinity College Duplin. The authors have the professional competence to study and make recommendations on the health issue of suicidality of clients and how it affects the practitioners. Such professional competency fosters the reliability and validity of the study.

However, the study is qualitative in nature, with a literature review being the major research technique. This implies that the study results cannot be empirically verified.

Nevertheless, similar insights on the adverse implications of clients' suicide on the caregivers have been confirmed by numerous studies, including Gibbons (2019) and (Van der Hallen, 2023). The study will thus be used to complement empirical studies in completing the proposed research on the effects of client suicide on mental health providers.

References Bohan, F., & Doyle, L. (2008). Nurses’ experiences of patient suicide and suicide attempts in an acute unit. Mental health practice, 11(5).

Gibbons, R., Brand, F., Carbonnier, A., Croft, A., Lascelles, K., Wolfart, G., & Hawton, K. (2019). Effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists: a required survey of experiences and support. BJPsych Bulletin, 43(5), 236–241.

Spruch-Feiner, A., Labouliere, C. D., Brodsky, B., Green, K. L., Brown, G. K., Vasan, P., ... & Stanley, B. (2022). Effects of patient suicide on professional practice among mental health providers. Journal of psychiatric practice, 28(3), 184.

6 Van der Hallen, R. (2023). Suicide exposure and the impact of client suicide: a structural equation modeling approach. Archives of suicide research, 27(2), 426-438.