The topic of my research is the coping of individuals with the suicidality of a young person close to them. In the theoretical part, I divided the content into five sections, within which I presented various presented various definitions of suicidality, defined the causes of suicidality among young people, described the characteristics of the grieving process and the role of social work in working with the grieving, presented aid programs in Slovenia that work with bereaved and described general suggestions for help and support in the grieving process. Theoretical part is followed by the empirical part, where I defined the formulation of the problem and presented the recearch questions. In the research, I focused on how individuals coped with the suicidality of a loved one, the course of the grieving process, the help and support that individuals received, and the help and support they would need in order to get through the experience more easily. I conducted a qualitative research. As a data collection method, I used interviews, as I wanted to obtain the most detailed information and description of the experiences and procedures of the grieving process of those who were close to young people who have committed suicide or had a suicide attempt. In the empirical part, I also presented the results, discussion, and conclusions derived from interviewing seven loved ones (six with the experience of suicide and one with the experience of a suicide attempt) who had experienced the suicidality of a known young person at least two years ago. I found that the interviewees coped with suicidality in different, yet quite similar ways. At the beginning of the suicidality, they could not comprehend it, so some coped by denying it. Most of them wanted to be surrounded by friends. Upon learning about the event and during the grieving process, they experienced a whole range of emotions and feelings: sadness, anger, guilt, shame, doubt. The interviewees grieved for different lengths of time, ranging from two to eighteen months. During the grieving process, individuals helped themselves in different ways. The most effective in easing the pain was talking to friends and expressing emotions through art (keeping a diary, writing poems, and painting). Of the seven interviewees, only one sought professional help after the event. As additional support they would need to better cope with the experience, the interviewees mentioned professional support, a self-help group, a visit of a professional worker to the school and workshops on the topic of suicidality. I concluded the research with suggestions in the fields of healthcare and education, with guidelines for the family and friends of a person coping with the experience of a close person's suicidality, and with raising awareness among the general public about suicidality and the help and support for loved ones.
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