Welcoming people who have attempted suicide and the contributions of psychology from a gestalt-therapy point of view

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to thinking about the relationship of Psychology  as  a  collaborating  agent  and  facilitator  during  the  reception  of patients  with  suicide  attempt.  Given its multidimensional perspective, it is necessary to  understand  the  welcoming  process  by  psychologists  through contact  psychotherapy,  i.e.,  Gestalt-therapy,  to  clients  who  present  this demand,  with  the  purpose  of  restoring  and  expanding  this  contact,  the client's  awareness,  in  order  to  promote  the  expansion  of  his  awareness, under  the  light  of  Gestalt-therapy,  providing  an  effective  empathic  and welcoming emotional support. For the elaboration of this study, we used an integrative literature review, from the  last  five  years,  in  scientific  articles related  to  the  theme,  collected  in  the  database  ofthe  platforms  Pepsic (Periódicos  Eletrônicos  em  Psicologia),  Scielo  (Scientific  Eletronic  Library Online)  and  Google  Acadêmico.    Hence   the importance   of adopting mechanisms that offer support to strengthen the customer contact cycle, so that there are no blockages, interruptions, or even discontinuation of this cycle.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2023.006-052