Introduction: Globally, approximately 700,000 people die by suicide each year, and these people work and live in a wide range of social organizations, whose members' suicides can have an impact on family, friends, witnesses, other susceptible people and the organizations themselves. These effects include physical-psychological stress reactions, social influences and suicide contagion. Therefore, the suicide of an organization member should be regarded as a sudden crisis event of the organization, and the main body of the psychological emergency management for the suicide of an organization member should be the organization's decision-making and management personnel, and the target should be the other members of the organization.
Aims: To achieve the effect of curbing suicide contagion, reducing family disputes, restoring the group's mental health level, and reducing negative affect.
Method: Organizational members affected by different suicides were divided into four regions A, F, W, and O through the two dimensions of psychological distance, spatial distance and social distance, and psychological emergency management was carried out according to the characteristics of people in different regions.
Results: The methodology establishes a four-phase emergency management program - psychological prevention and preparedness phase that involves building psychological expectations, a non-punitive organizational culture, and a socially supportive organization; an emergency psychological response phase that involves determining the distribution of suicide-affected populations and blocking the spread of the effects of suicide in the media; an emergency psychological response phase that involves providing first aid through individual counseling, deconstructing social influences through Balint groups, and using the Satir model to enhance the mental resilience of the group; and a final phase that involves tracking the effects of the emergency psychological response and summarizing and improving the process.
Discussion: The following three questions were discussed: Do family members of suicides who are not part of an organization need intervention? How do the principles of emergency management and psychological intervention relate to each other? How do the subjects of emergency management relate to the subjects of psychological intervention?
Implications for Practice: This paper serves as an emergency management plan that can be directly applied to all types of organizations in the event of an employee suicide.
Keywords: organization member suicide; suicide influence; psychological emergency management; psychological distance