At a brainstorming session among national leaders of the suicide survivor community and other experts, which SAVE organized this spring in Portland, one need identified as being of utmost importance was, as Kim Ruocco of TAPS put it,
We need to know more about what about a support group makes it healing.
Ruocco's declaration was echoed repeatedly by others during the Portland meeting, and a recently completed review of 20 years of literature on peer-support services in the mental health field emphatically confirms the need for more and better research on support groups:
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