Suicide: Interviewing Survivors

Interviewing people who have gone through traumatic experiences - whether connected to suicide of not - calls for a different approach than most interviews a journalist may conduct. Using the right techniques, knowing and paying attention to warning signs that someone is in distress, working in a more explicitly co-operative way than may be usual, even making arrangements for follow-up checks on the interviewee's wellbeing, all these and more can be appropriate in some circumstances.