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

McClatchey, Irene Searles; Wimmer, Jane S.

doi:10.1177/1473325012465104

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“…This situation made grieving more difficult for the surviving parent and children as the added stress overwhelmed them and prevented them from focusing on coping with their loss. These findings are consistent with previous research that found that a disruption of the daily environment after the death of a parent can make the grieving process more difficult for children (LaFreniere & Cain, 2015;McClatchey & Wimmer, 2012;Raveis et al, 1999;Worden, 1996).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Parentally bereaved adolescents with good quality peer and romantic relationships report fewer depressive symptoms (Schoenfelder, Sandler, Wolchik, & MacKinnon, 2011). Grief camps can be a helpful resource for parentally bereaved children and adolescents, who can spend time with other mourning children and relate to each other (Koblenz, 2015;McClatchey & Wimmer, 2012). Being able to share their feelings with other children who had similar experiences allows children to feel more understood and less alone in their grief.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is important to learn about and understand children's grief experiences, as unresolved grief may lead to severe repercussions later in life such as psychiatric issues, health problems, and depression (Lawrence et al, 2005;McClatchey & Wimmer, 2012). For example, early life stressors such as early parental death are known to contribute to suicide, which was the tenth leading cause of death among youth in the United States in 2011 (Hollingshaus & Smith, 2015).…”

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Reflections of Young Adults on the Loss of a Parent in Adolescence

Apelian

Nesteruk

2017

IJCYFS

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This study explores the reflections of young adults on the experience of parental loss in adolescence. Participants were recruited through snowball sampling and personal connections from Montreal and New Jersey. Personal interviews based on in-depth, open-ended questions were used to examine how parentally bereaved children and their families were affected in the short term and into early adulthood. The use of resources, coping strategies helpful to the participants, and adaptation to the death were also explored. The findings of the study are discussed through the lens of the Double ABC-X model of family stress and adaptation. Four themes emerged from the data analysis: (a) pile-up of stressors aggravates grieving; (b) benefits of social support; (c) coping strategies used by the participants; (d) adaptation to the loss of a parent -personal growth and maturation. Implications for future research and practitioners working with this population are discussed.

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Reflections of Young Adults on the Loss of a Parent in Adolescence

Apelian

Nesteruk

2017

IJCYFS

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“…3 Yalnızlık duygusu ve akranlardan ayrı kalmak yas deneyiminde üzüntü ve öfke kadar yaygındır. 21 Yas sürecindeki kardeşler aynı zamanda sosyal işlevsellikte ve ilişkilerde de değişiklikler yaşayabilirler. Normal çocuklarla karşılaştırıldığında yas sürecindeki çocukların ölümden 2 yıl sonra daha az uyum ve daha az sosyal etkileşim yaşadıkları görülmektedir.…”

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“…21 Eğer ölüm süreci bir hastalık sonucu gerçekleşmişse, tüm hastalık süreci boyunca hasta çocuk ebeveynlerin odak noktası haline gelmektedir. Bu durum aileye yakın diğer kişiler için de geçerlidir (aile büyükleri, arkadaşlar vb.).…”

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Kayıp ve Yas Sürecinde Kardeşler

Yıldız¹,

Balcı²

2016

HSP

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ÖZET Çocuklar için ölüm, kavranması ve kabullenilmesi zor bir durumdur. Bu nedenle çocukların ölüme verdikleri yas tepkisi, yaş gruplarına ve içinde bulundukları kültüre göre farklı şekillerde yaşanabilir. Kardeşin ölümü ise yaşayan kardeş üzerinde derin bir etki bırakabilir ve çocuğun yaşamını geri dönüşsüz bir şekilde değiştirebilir. Kardeşin ölümü nedeniyle yaşanan yas tepkileri sıklıkla uzun bir zaman sürecinde yaşanan büyük üzüntüyü ve depresyonu içerebilir. Bu deneyimi yaşayan çocuklar, özellikle hastalığın oluştuğu ve ölümün beklendiği süreçte ebeveynlerin de kendi yas süreçlerine odaklanmalarından dolayı, aileden sınırlı destek alabilir, daha az iletişim kurabilirler ya da ihmale uğrayabilir ve görünmez olduklarını hissedebilirler. Bu durum onların korku, öfke, anksiyete ya da depresyon yaşamalarına neden olabilir. Hemşireler, hastalık sürecinin her aşamasında aile, hasta çocuk ve kardeşle iletişim halinde olmaları nedeniyle kardeşlerinin ölümünü yaşayan çocukları desteklemede, sağlık personelleri arasında önemli bir role sahiptir. Hemşire, yas sürecindeki ebeveynlere ve kardeşlere vereceği eğitim ve uygun yaklaşımla yas sürecini uyumlu bir şekilde yaşayabilmelerine destek olabilir ve uyumsuz yas süreci yaşayan ebeveynleri ve çocukları erken dönemde fark edip, girişimlerini buna göre planlamalıdır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Yas süreci, kardeş, hemşire ABSTRACT Death is a hard situation to understand and accept for children. Therefore the grieving reaction of children in death situation may be different regarding to age group or cultural back ground of children. Death of a sibling may make a profound impact to the living sibling and may make irreversible changes in the living sibling's life. Grieving reactions which are caused by the death of siblings can commonly cause major sorrow and depression. Children who experienced this situation can get less support from their parents because of parents' own grief or they can communicate less and may feel neglected and invisible. This situation may cause them to feel frightened, angry, anxious and depressed. Nurses have an important role among the other health care professionals to support the children who experienced sibling's death because nurses are always in touch with parents, sick children and their siblings at every stages of disease process. Nurse can support parents and siblings to live their grief process in a harmonius way by appropriate approach and education or nurses may notice earlier parents and siblings who are living the grief process inappropriately and should plan the nursing interventions according to them. Keywords: Process of grieving, sibling, nurse. GirişKayıp, birey için önemli ve değerli nesnelerin (kişi, organ, işlev, obje, hayvan vb.) yitirilmesi ya da ölüm sonucu kişinin hayatından uzaklaşması anlamına gelmektedir. Ölüm, evrensel bir olgudur ve aslında doğmak kadar yaşamın bir parçası ve doğal bir süreçtir. Ancak kayıp yaşayan kişiye acı ve keder duyguları yaşatır ve birey yas süre-cine girer.

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Death and dying: A systematic review into approaches used to support bereaved children

Duncan

2020

Review of Education

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Supporting, caring for and working with bereaved children is both daunting and challenging, yet not much is known about how schools can help children to cope with death and dying. The main objective of this study was to identify approaches used to support children who are grieving, and to explore implications for teachers. The use of retrospective autoethnography sets out this review as a practitioner enquiry-based project. A systematic review of literature involving school-aged children was undertaken. The focus of these studies was on approaches to death and dying taken by children, parents and teachers-which helped recently bereaved children to cope. The studies all relate to children aged 3-18. Four databases were searched, up to and including the spring of 2019: British Education Index; Child Development & Adolescent Studies; ERIC; and PsycINFO. The included studies were analysed using a qualitative enquiry model which draws on metaethnography. Abstracts and titles of 765 articles were examined. Following the selection process, 15 studies were included. All of the studies were peer-reviewed, published after 2000 and used qualitative methods of data collection (interviews, ethnographies, a case study and observations). Encouraging children to openly communicate, find comfort in various ways and express emotion regularly were the most common approaches. The results indicate that if the correct approaches are taken, children can feel supported during a challenging and fearful time in their lives. Future research is required on the effects of specific teacher-led approaches in schools.

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

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

Reflections of Young Adults on the Loss of a Parent in Adolescence

Reflections of Young Adults on the Loss of a Parent in Adolescence

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Death and dying: A systematic review into approaches used to support bereaved children

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