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Suicide and euthanasia due to psychiatric disorders

This research project aims to optimise care provision surrounding suicide and euthanasia due to mental illness for patients and their loved ones, and to provide bereavement care for surviving relatives.

Researchers

Partners

ARQ Nationaal Psychotrauma Centrum.

Publications

Snijdewind, M. C., de Keijser, J., Casteelen, G., Boelen, P. A., & Smid, G. E. (2022). “Only One Way Out”-Partners’ Experiences and Grief Related to the Death of Their Loved One by Suicide or Physician-Assisted Dying Due to a Mental Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 894417. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.894417

Snijdewind, M. C., de Keijser, J., Casteelen, G., Boelen, P. A., & Smid, G. E. (2022). “I lost so much more than my partner” – Bereaved partners’ grief experiences following suicide or physician-assisted dying in case of a mental disorder. BMC Psychiatry, 22 (1), 454. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04098-5

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