Children's reactions to parental and sibling death.
A significant population of children will experience bereavement because of the death of a parent or a sibling. This grief is different from the bereavement seen in adults and needs to be understood in a developmental context. Cognitive and emotional understanding of death and dying in children gradually evolves with age. This report provides clinicians with information regarding the unique developmental elements in children that relate to the process of bereavement secondary to parental and sibling loss, risk factors for complicated grief, the warning signs of depression and anxiety beyond normal grief reaction, and the guidelines for intervention in children.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3440 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Aradhana Bela
AB
Sood
Amit
A
Razdan
Elizabeth B
EB
Weller
Ronald A
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Weller
D001293:Attitude to Death; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D035781:Siblings