title: "No rights or wrongs, no magic solutions": teachers' responses to bereaved adolescent students.
abstract: The study aimed to understand how teachers responded to students bereaved of a parent. The authors interviewed 12 secondary school teachers and implemented a grounded theory design. Participants described how they engage in six central processes: flexibility, openness, support, emotionality, sharing, and communication. The authors conceptualized these processes as continua with opposing actions at each end. Teachers' movement on the continua is fluid, influenced by systemic factors, student-specific factors and factors individual to the teacher. Responses on the continua in relation to each student's bereavement are unique to each teacher-student relationship.
authors.affiliation: a Child Bereavement UK , Buckinghamshire , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rowland
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Beinart
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*