title: Communicating with the bereaved parent.
abstract: Of all grief experiences that a parent may experience, the loss of one's child is perhaps the most difficult and intense. Parents have hopes and aspirations for their children's future and when a child dies, those hopes and aspirations die too. Such a loss conflicts with life cycle expectations: a child is supposed to grow up, become a successful adult and raise a family. Parents do not expect to outlive their children.
authors.affiliation: Hematology Department of the Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bishundayal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D022143:Family Nursing; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations