title: Parent bereavement stress and preventive intervention following the violent deaths of adolescent or young adult children.
abstract: It is currently believed that effective intervention programs can reduce the negative consequences of stressful life events.  The purpose of this paper is to describe a three-step process used to develop a theory-based preventive intervention for parents whose 12- to 28-year-old children had died 2 to 7 months previously by accident, homicide, or suicide.  Assumptive world, family life cycle, victimization, and social support theories form the basis for "matching" parent bereavement stress with selected intervention strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003643:Death; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry; D016730:Program Development; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014754:Violence