“For five years, Requarth, (director, children’s bereavement program, Sutter VNA & Hospice, Santa Rosa, CA) researched the effects of a parent’s suicide, interviewing 200 children, teens, and adults. The fruits of her labor are apparent in this book, which is targeted to parents who have lost a partner to suicide. Besides sharing the poignant story of her mother’s suicide and its impact on her, Requarth summarized current research on suicide, explores the increased risk of mental health issues for child survivors, and explains some of the prevailing assumptions about suicide cases. At the book’s heart, however, are the author’s superb explanations of how to explain suicide to children and how children grieve, how grief impacts adolescents, the natural stages of grief, funeral rituals and religious and spiritual perspectives on suicide, and how to help children return to normalcy. Requarth’s book offers more on supporting surviving children, teens, and spouses than Alfred Alvarez’s The Savage God: A Study of Suicide or Kay Redfield Jamison’s Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide and is a timely update to Edward J. Dunne and others’ Suicide and Its Aftermath: Understanding and Counseling the Survivors. Highly recommended for university libraries supporting the helping professions and larger public libraries.”
—Library Journal

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“A compassionate and practical work. Margo Requarth’s counsel is sound, wise, and sensitive. Anyone who works with grieving children—especially those grieving a suicide—needs this book.”
—Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.
Professor, The College of New Rochelle
Senior Consultant, The Hospice Foundation of America

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“An extraordinary, beautifully written resource that provides effective and appropriate interventions to empower children and help them heal.”
—Doreen Cammarata, M.S., L.M.H.C.
Author, Someone I Love Died by Suicide: A Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them

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“After a Parent´s Suicide is a sensitive and insightful blueprint for surviving the suicide of a parent with the least amount of damage. It describes everything I wish had been done for me after my mom´s suicide.”
—Dara Berger
Filmmaker, A Secret Best Not Kept