IASP Task Force - Postvention
IASP Postvention Taskforce Newsletter
Vol 2, No 4 - August 2008 (pdf) NEW
Vol 2, No 3 - June 2008 (pdf)
Vol 2, No 2 - March 2008 (pdf)
Vol 2, No 1 - January 2008 (pdf)
Vol 1, No 1 - November 2007 (pdf)
2nd International Suicide Postvention Seminar 28th August 2007 (pdf) - Killarney, Ireland
Chair and contact person: Karl Andriessen
List of Members (pdf)
Task Force Minutes
- Minutes from Meeting held at the XXIII World Suicide Prevention Congress, Durban, South Africa, 13-16 September 2005 (pdf)
- Minutes from Meeting 27 August 2004 - Copenhagen (pdf)
- Minutes from Meeting 13th September 2003 - Stockholm (pdf)
National Survivor Organisations
European Directory of Suicide Survivor Services
Papers:
Andriessen K: Suicide survivors activities: an international perspective (pdf)
Andriessen K: How to increase suicide survivor support? Experiences from the
national survivor programme in Flanders - Belgium (pdf)
Karl Andriessen, Chair
E-mail: iasp-tf-postvention@pandora.be
p/a Suicide Prevention Project
Martelaarslaan 204b
9000 Gent, Belgium
Tel: + 32 9 233 5099
Fax: + 32 9 233 3589
Karl Andriessen (MSuicidology) is Coordinator of the Suicide Prevention Project of the Mental Health Centres in Flanders-Belgium. The project aims to increase and to improve the care that is provided to suicidal people, in the Mental Health Centres and in other community resources.
He is a past Director of the Flemish Suicide Prevention Centre, where he started to work in 1988. Amongst other projects he led the Belgian national study (2000-1) on the needs of suicide survivors and suicide bereavement service delivery.
He was the Vice-Chair of the Flemish Working Group of Suicide Survivors (2000-6), and he convened the 1st International Suicide Postvention Seminar on 8 September 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia. Recipient of the IASP 2005 Farberow Postvention Award.
