A pilot study of the impact of a grief camp for children

Nabors, Laura; Ohms, Marshae; Buchanan, Natasha; Kirsh, Kenneth L.; Nash, Tiffany; Passik, Steven D.; Johnson, Joni L.; Snapp, Janet; Brown, Gretchen

doi:10.1017/s1478951504040532

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“…The sibling supporters arranged camps for siblings, where they started to talk about their feelings and thoughts. This mechanism of support has also been confirmed in other studies (Barrera, Chung, Greenberg, & Fleming, 2002; Hancock, 2011; Jenholt Nolbris & Hedman Ahlström, 2014; Nabors et al, 2004; Nolbris et al, 2010; Sidhu, Passmore, & Baker, 2006; Sloper, 2000).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Sibling Supporters’ Experiences of Giving Support to Siblings Who Have a Brother or a Sister With Cancer

Nolbris

Nilsson

2016

J Pediatr Oncol Nurs

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Siblings of a child with a life-threatening disease, such as cancer, have a right to measures that promote their health and welfare. Siblings may find it hard to understand what is happening to the sick child with cancer and why he or she reacts as he or she does. The aim of the study was to explore sibling supporters' thoughts about the experiences they had in providing support for siblings with a brother or a sister with a life-threatening disease such as cancer. All the 12 sibling supporters currently working in Sweden participated in a qualitative, descriptive study from which 5 categories emerged, showing that the sibling supporters supported siblings from diagnosis until possible death. They enabled siblings who were in the same situation to meet each other and arranged activities suited to their ages, as well as offering an encouraging environment. To help the siblings, the sibling supporters found it necessary to interact with both the parents and the ward staff. The sibling supporters felt that their support was important and necessary in helping siblings promote their own health both when the sick child was alive and also after his or her death. The experience of the sibling supporters was that they listened to the siblings' stories and met them when they were in their crisis. The study confirms that sibling supporters should be a part of the health care team that treat and support the family when a child has cancer.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Sibling Supporters’ Experiences of Giving Support to Siblings Who Have a Brother or a Sister With Cancer

Nolbris

Nilsson

2016

J Pediatr Oncol Nurs

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“…However, some studies of bereavement camp experiences have surfaced within the last few years. Children attending a weekend camp, where the children participated in grief theory-based activities, reported positive experiences of camp in semi-structured interviews (Nabors, Ohms, Buchanan, Kirsch, Nash, Passik, et al, 2004). These theory-based activities included painting feeling masks, creating and playing a board game, participating in memorial services, and letter writing, as well as working on grief coping skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

Healing Components of a Bereavement Camp: Children and Adolescents Give Voice to Their Experiences

McClatchey

Wimmer

2012

Omega (Westport)

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This qualitative study is the follow-up to a quantitative controlled study which showed a decrease in childhood traumatic grief and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in parentally bereaved children participating in a bereavement camp. The purpose of this study was to identify the healing components of this camp model. Semi-structured interviews with 19 children and 13 parents/guardians were conducted 3 to 9 months after participation in the bereavement camp. Therapeutic Interventions and Traditional Camp Activities emerged as themes. The themes are discussed in relation to previous research as are limitations of the study and the implications for theory, practice, and future research.

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“…Other camp researchers used both quantitative and qualitative input. Nabors et al. (2004) evaluated the satisfaction with and impact of a weekend camp as expressed by children ages 6 through 12 using a Likert scale.…”

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Coping with parental death as seen from the perspective of children who attended a grief camp

McClatchey

Wimmer

2012

Qualitative Social Work

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In this qualitative case study researchers interviewed 16 parentally bereaved children and their 11 surviving parents in order to conceptualize the emotional impact of losing a parent to death and to understand the possible influence of one bereavement program’s attempt to address these issues. An inductive constant comparative method was used to identify themes which were enriched through deductive computer assisted analysis. Themes presented by children and parents are discussed in terms of the emotional impact of the death and the influence of the program on each issue. Themes revealed were Sadness, Anger, Being Set Apart, Worries, Trauma, and Contemplation of Suicide.

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A pilot study of the impact of a grief camp for children

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Sibling Supporters’ Experiences of Giving Support to Siblings Who Have a Brother or a Sister With Cancer

Sibling Supporters’ Experiences of Giving Support to Siblings Who Have a Brother or a Sister With Cancer

Healing Components of a Bereavement Camp: Children and Adolescents Give Voice to Their Experiences

Coping with parental death as seen from the perspective of children who attended a grief camp

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