“…Past studies have found parentally bereaved adolescents at greater risk for a wide array of adjustment problems compared to their non-bereaved counterparts. They have been found to have a greater risk of premature death (Li, Verergaard, Cnattingius, Gissler, Hammer Bech, Obel, & Olsen, 2014), suicide attempts (Jakobsen & Christiansen, 2011), to experience depression (Jacobs & Bovasso, 2009;Yagla Mack, 2001), to have more severe and greater numbers of other psychiatric difficulties, (Dowdney, 2000), to have lower grades and more school failures (Berg, Rostila, Saarela & Hjern, 2014), lower self-esteem (Worden & Silverman, 1996), greater involvement in youth delinquency, (Draper & Hancock, 2011), more drug abuse (von Sydow, Lieb, Pfister, Höfler, & Wittchen, 2002) and more violent crime involvements (Wilcox, Satoko, Kuramoto, Lichtenstein, Långström, Brent, & Runeson, 2010).…”