title: The bereavement process in children of parents with AIDS.
abstract: AIDS has left tens of thousands of children with dead or dying parents. This epidemic is forcing us to take a new look at loss in childhood, paying attention to the impact of the social and cultural forces in these children's surroundings on their internal/psychological worlds. This chapter is a preliminary attempt to examine these factors, integrating psychoanalytic concepts, the sociocultural context, and treatment issues. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate throughout.
authors.affiliation: Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy