title: Young children's grief: parents' understanding and coping.
abstract: The grief experiences of young children and the interactional dynamics between parents and children leading to healthy grieving remain comparatively under researched. This article reports a qualitative evaluation of a Norwegian Bereavement Support Program where 8 parents described their young child's grief reactions and coping and how these intersected with their own grief. Successful parental coping with their child's grief involves understanding the child's genuine concerns following the death and an intricately holistic balance between shielding and including, between informing and frightening, and between creating a new life while cherishing the old.
authors: a Centre for Health Promotion , Akershus University Hospital , Lørenskog , Norway.
authors: Kari E
authors: KE
authors: Bugge
authors: Philip
authors: P
authors: Darbyshire
authors: Eline Grelland
authors: EG
authors: Røkholt
authors: Karen Therese Sulheim
authors: KT
authors: Haugstvedt
authors: Solvi
authors: S
authors: Helseth
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research