Children's construction of a deceased parent: the surviving parent's contribution.
Constructing a connection to the deceased is helpful to children in adjusting to the death of a parent. Using interview data from a subset of a larger study of childhood bereavement, this paper describes ways in which parents help children, ages 10-12, build this connection, provides case examples contrasting parental attitudes and behavior that are helpful and those that are not helpful to the child, and offers implications for clinical practice.
Nickman
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Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Silverman
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Normand
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D008568:Memory; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D002666:Psychology, Child