This study is about posttraumatic growth (PTG) and in particular, how the notion relates to parents bereaved by suicide.This study seeks to understand the experiences of parents by exploring their lived experiences of suicide grief.
This is a qualitative, Māori centred, case study approach was designed to surface and provide a depth of understanding of the critical themes and features of suicide grief through analysis of the mechanisms that influence the posttraumatic growth of parents bereaved by suicide, along with the posttraumatic growth outcomes of surviving their child’s suicide death.