Dr Sheila Clark is a general practitioner who has worked in the area of suicide postvention for over 20 years. She co-facilitated the Bereaved Through Suicide Support Group in Adelaide for many years, and has undertaken research, teaching, publications and counselling in the area of grief. Her publications include her book After Suicide: Help for the Bereaved. She has contributed to various State, national and international committees concerned with the support of people bereaved through suicide. In 2001 she was awarded the Farberow Award of the International Association for Suicide Prevention for services to postvention.
For many years she was Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Adelaide where she directed the Graduate Grief Program and developed various tools to assist general practitioners in the care of bereaved patients.
She is currently engaged in private practice as a grief, bereavement and trauma counsellor and is studying theology part-time.