title: Cries from the morgue.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Family member homicide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore the unique facets of bereavement for a family member of a homicide victim in order to assist clinicians during assessment, evaluation, and intervention with children.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors' experience in working with children at a child grief center and published literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children experience grief uniquely and use differing methods of coping and adaptation. Knowledge of these differences can assist clinicians with promotion of adaptive coping and grieving in children who have been exposed to murder.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. pclements@salud.unm.edu
authors.forename: Paul T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Clements
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Weisser
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology