The Family Bereavement Program: Efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally bereaved children and adolescents.

Sandler, Irwin N.; Ayers, Tim; Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Tein, Jenn-Yun; Kwok, Oi‐Man; Haine, Rachel A.; Twohey-Jacobs, Joan; Suter, Jesse C.; Lin, Kirk; Padgett-Jones, Sarah; Weyer, Janelle L.; Cole, Eloise; Kriege, Gary; Griffin, William A.

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.71.3.587

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“…Several theory-based behavioral intervention programs among bereaved children in the United States have demonstrated efficacy in improving coping with bereavement-related stressors among orphans (Pfeffer, Jiang, Kakuma, Hwang, & Metsch, 2002;Sandler, et al, 2003) and among children affected by HIV (Forehand et al, 1998;Rotheram-Borus, Murphy, Draimin, & Miller, 1997). Given the resources required for designing and evaluating such effective programs and urgent needs for these programs in China and other resource-poor countries, a plausible and cost-effective approach may be to culturally adapt some of these intervention approaches to new settings.…”

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Care arrangements, grief and psychological problems among children orphaned by AIDS in China

Zhao

Fang

et al. 2007

AIDS Care

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The China Ministry of Health has estimated that there are at least 100,000 AIDS orphans in China. The UNICEF China Office estimates that between 150,000 and 250,000 additional children will be orphaned by AIDS over the next five years. However, limited data are available regarding the sociodemographic characteristics, care arrangement, barriers to appropriate grief resolution and psychological problems among AIDS orphans in China. In this article, we review secondary data and reports from scientific literature, government, non-governmental organizations, and public media regarding children orphaned by AIDS in China to address their living situation, bereavement process, and psychological problems. Our review suggests that AIDS orphans in China are living in a stressful environment with many orphans struggling with psychological problems and unmet basic needs such as food, shelter, education, and medical care. Based on our review, we suggest that future studies should address the psychosocial needs of AIDS orphans in China and develop health promotion programs to mitigate the negative impact of parental death on the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of these orphans.

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Care arrangements, grief and psychological problems among children orphaned by AIDS in China

Zhao

Fang

et al. 2007

AIDS Care

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“…Bereavement counseling's greatest effectiveness appears to occur when the counseling is focused on emotional development and coping skills of older children and adolescents who have suffered such losses (Jordan & Neimeyer, 2003;Schut, Stroebe, Van Den Bout, & Terheggen, 2001). One effective program for adolescents who experienced loss and their families is the Family Bereavement Program (FBP) developed by Sandler et al (2003). The FBP is a 2-component group intervention for parentally bereaved children ages 8-16.…”

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“…The program focuses on increasing children's beliefs that their feelings are understood by their caregivers and reducing their need to inhibit the negative expression of grief-related feelings. Sandler et al (2003) have evaluated FBP by random assignment of 156 families to the FBP or a self-study condition. Results at 11-month follow-up indicate that the FBP led to improved parenting, coping, and caregiver mental health and to reductions in stressful events.…”

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Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect

Heim

Shugart

Craighead

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Developmental Psychobiology

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The effects of early-life trauma and its consequences for the treatment of depression are reviewed. The prevalence and clinical sequelae of early sexual and physical abuse, neglect and parental loss are described. An overview of preclinical studies that help guide clinical research and practice is presented. Human clinical studies on the neurobiological consequences of early trauma are summarized. Moderating factors, such as genetic variation and sex differences, are discussed. The few current treatment outcome studies relevant to this research area are described. Guidance for the management of patients with depression and a history of child abuse and neglect are provided. Most patients who have experienced early traumatic experiences are likely best treated with a combination of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. This review is dedicated to the memory of Seymour Levine who pioneered the field of early experience research and to a considerable extent inspired the clinical studies described in this review.

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“…For selective preventive interventions, such as those directed at children going through a major transition in family composition due to foster parenting (Chamberlain, 2003), divorce (Forgatch and DeGarmo, in press;Wolchik et al, 2002, in press), or bereavement (Sandler et al, 2003), an examination of variation in impact can help differentiate those who may benefit from an existing intervention from those who would be better served by another intervention or none at all. As an example of a selective intervention, the multidimensional treatment foster care provides ongoing support for foster parents in handling the needs of individual children.…”

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Methods for testing theory and evaluating impact in randomized field trials: Intent-to-treat analyses for integrating the perspectives of person, place, and time

Brown¹,

Wang²,

Kellam³

et al. 2008

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Randomized field trials provide unique opportunities to examine the effectiveness of an intervention in real world settings and to test and extend both theory of etiology and theory of intervention. These trials are designed not only to test for overall intervention impact but also to examine how impact varies as a function of individual level characteristics, context, and across time. Examination of such variation in impact requires analytical methods that take into account the trial's multiple nested structure and the evolving changes in outcomes over time. The models that we describe here merge multilevel modeling with growth modeling, allowing for variation in impact to be represented through discrete mixtures-growth mixture models-and nonparametric smooth functions-generalized additive mixed models. These methods are part of an emerging class of multilevel growth mixture models, and we illustrate these with models that examine overall impact and variation in impact. In this paper, we define intent-to-treat analyses in group-randomized multilevel field trials and discuss appropriate ways to identify, examine, and test for variation in impact without inflating the Type I error rate. We describe how to make causal inferences more robust to misspecification of covariates * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 813 974 6672. E-mail address: hbrown@health.usf.edu (C.H. Brown). Conflict of InterestAuthor Muthén is a co-developer of Mplus, which is discussed in this paper. There are no conflicts of interest. in such analyses and how to summarize and present these interactive intervention effects clearly. Practical strategies for reducing model complexity, checking model fit, and handling missing data are discussed using six randomized field trials to show how these methods may be used across trials randomized at different levels. NIH Public Access

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The Family Bereavement Program: Efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally bereaved children and adolescents.

Cited by 282 publications

References 54 publications

Care arrangements, grief and psychological problems among children orphaned by AIDS in China

Care arrangements, grief and psychological problems among children orphaned by AIDS in China

Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect

Methods for testing theory and evaluating impact in randomized field trials: Intent-to-treat analyses for integrating the perspectives of person, place, and time

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