After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth

After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth references the long and painful journey of bereavement that many suicide-loss-survivors experience in the wake of losing their loved one. A new area of positive psychology offers another vehicle for understanding the consequences of this experience by investigating the possibilities for personal growth within the context of this distressing and traumatic event. There is much to be mined by exploring faith as both a facilitator of growth and an outcome of growth. The contributors to this book are all suicide bereaved and have written short essays about how faith changed and grew as they traversed their journey of bereavement and also buoyed them in their darkest time of loss. Contributors are faith leaders, mental health professionals, caring survivors, and leaders in the fields of suicidology, thanatology, and bereavement. A must-read for any survivor of suicide loss.

Melinda Moore, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, and core faculty for the EKU Clinical Psychology doctoral program. She routinely trains clinicians in the empirically supported suicide-focused treatment framework CAMS and is in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky. She published The Suicide Funeral: Honoring their Memory, Comforting their Survivors (Wipf & Stock) with her co-editor, Rabbi Daniel Roberts.




Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, is rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu El in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served for thirty-five years. Rabbi Roberts received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (1969) and his DMin from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He earned a fellow in thanatology certification awarded by the Association for Death Education and Counselling. Throughout his career Rabbi Roberts has been intrigued with the field of thanatology.