Most of the literature base that I have explored focuses largely on completed suicide. I am specifically looking for resources regarding children's reactions, recovery, and interactions with loved ones (especially parents) who had attempted but did not complete suicide.
If this kind of trauma can go along with other types of traumas in children then here are some ideas:
Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured children. Marsac, Meghan L.; Mirman, Jessica H.; Kohser, Kristen L.; Kassam-Adams, Nancy. Families, Systems, & Health 29.4 (Dec 2011): 279-290.
Understanding the impact of trauma exposure on posttraumatic stress symptomatology: A structural equation modeling approach. Chen, Wei; Wang, Long; Zhang, Xing-Li; Shi, Jian-Nong. Journal of Loss and Trauma 17.1 (Jan 2012): 98-110.
If you are specifically interested in parental suicidal attempts then these papers may give you some ideas:
Parental suicide attempt and offspring self-harm and suicidal thoughts: Results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) birth cohort. Geulayov, Galit; Metcalfe, Chris; Heron, Jon; Kidger, Judi; Gunnell, David. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 53.5 (May 2014): 509-517.
Freeing the parent voice: A hermeneutic phenomenological understanding of parents whose children have survived suicide attempts. Henry-McAllister, Brianne E.. ProQuest Information & Learning, 2013. AAI3515256.
Childhood parental death and lifetime suicide attempt of the opposite‐gender offspring in a nationwide community sample of Korea. Jeon, Hong Jin; Hong, Jin Pyo; Fava, Maurizio; Mischoulon, David; Nyer, Maren; et al. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 43.6 (Dec 2013): 598-610.
An introduction to sensitivity analysis for unobserved confounding in nonexperimental prevention research. Liu, Weiwei; Kuramoto, S. Janet; Stuart, Elizabeth A..Prevention Science 14.6 (Dec 2013): 570-580
Attitudes toward suicide survivors as a function of survivors' relationship to the victim. Reynolds, Francoise M.; Cimbolic, Peter. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 19.2 (1988-1989): 125-133.
Breathing out: Giving voice to women's transformation. Logan, Maria Christine. ProQuest Information & Learning, 2008. AAI3298179.
Maternal or paternal suicide and offspring’s psychiatric and suicide-attempt hospitalization risk. Kuramoto, S. Janet; Stuart, Elizabeth A.; Runeson, Bo; Lichtenstein, Paul; Långström, Niklas; et al. Pediatrics 126.5 (Nov 2010): e1026-e1032.
Les conduites suicidaires parentales et l'enfant. Lachal, Christian. Psychologie Medicale 20.3 (Mar 1988): 355-358.
As a start.
Fairbank, John A.; Briggs, Ernestine C.; Carmody, Karen Appleyard; Greeson, Johanna K. P.; Woods, Briana A.. In Facilitating resilience and recovery following trauma, by Zoellner, Lori A. (Ed); Feeny, Norah C. (Ed), 91-112. New York, NY, US:Guilford Press, 2014.
Lessons learned about the impact of disasters on children and families and post-disaster recovery. Osofsky, Joy D.; Osofsky, Howard J.. In Child and family advocacy: Bridging the gaps between research, practice, and policy, by McDonald Culp, Anne (Ed), 91-105. New York, NY, US:Springer Science + Business Media, 2013
Fostering resilience in daughters of battered women. Anderson, Kim M.. In Handbook of family resilience, edited by Becvar, Dorothy S., 495-514. New York, NY, US:Springer Science + Business Media, 2013.
Good luck!
May be of help to look at or indeed contact Headspace in Australia as they have a range of very good resourses and approaches http://www.headspace.org.au/ or in the UK Papyrus http://www.papyrus-uk.org/ their views on this may be of help. Although a lot of the experience may be related to loss by suicide there are many similarities. The list of refences above is very impressive and helpful.
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