Maintaining connections in children's grief narratives in popular film.
Children's grief narratives in popular films were examined for their portrayal of connection-maintaining strategies with the deceased. Comparisons were made between strategies found in actual parentally bereaved children and in child characters in films. Implications of these filmed grief narratives for models of grieving and for practice are discussed.
Sedney
Mary Anne
MA
Department of Psychology, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island 02918, USA. masedney@providence.edu
D002648:Child; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009040:Motion Pictures; D033262:Narration