Adolescents' experiences of having a stillborn half-sibling.
Although there is an increasing interest in siblings' experiences of loss and grief there is limited knowledge of adolescent's own perspectives, especially in a unique situation as after stillbirth in a reconstituted family. The authors interviewed 13 bereaved adolescents. They were sad that their family was not the same and expressed feelings of being inside family grief, yet outside, because they did not have full access in their reconstituted family. An implication of present findings is that it is important to include all the members of the family in the grieving process, even half-siblings of the deceased child.
a Department of Women's and Children's Health , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden.
Pernilla
P
Avelin
Göran
G
Gyllenswärd
Kerstin
K
Erlandsson
Ingela
I
Rådestad
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000523:psychology*