Anticipating parental death in families with young children.
Findings from a community study of parentally bereaved children demonstrate that forewarning of death is not associated with more favorable mental health outcomes than is sudden death of a parent. The applicability of the of the general anticipatory grief literature to the circumstances of children facing the loss of a parent is called into question, and the need to assess more carefully the effect on children of a parent's protracted terminal illness is emphasized.
Saldinger
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Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Cain
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Kalter
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Lohnes
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D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003645:Death, Sudden; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019452:Terminally Ill; D013997:Time Factors