Childhood bereavement services grants

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Bereavement

Bereavement

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 779-780
Author(s):  
WANDA K. PANOSH
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Board Certification ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Grief And Bereavement

To the Editor.— I applaud the Academy's insightful report on "The Pediatrician and Childhood Bereavement."1 Despite training culminating in board certification in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, I received no effective formal guidance in the area of grief and bereavement. Only since the sudden death of my 7-year-old son and the painful readjustment my family has been forced to undergo since, has it been obvious how deficient we physicians are in this area of caring. Thus I would like to add the following comments:

Some Psychiatric Non-Sequelae of Childhood Bereavement

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (520) ◽  
pp. 305-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Munro ◽  
A. B. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
The University

This article presents the results of a study initiated by the late G. R. Hargreaves, Nuffield Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leeds.

scholarly journals The prevalence of childhood bereavement in Scotland and its relationship with disadvantage: the significance of a public health approach to death, dying and bereavement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 263235242097504
Author(s):  
Sally Paul ◽  
Nina Vaswani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Close Family Member ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Bereavement Care

Background and Method: There is an absence of research on the prevalence of bereavement during early childhood and the relationship between childhood bereavement and socioeconomic status (SES) and this poses a challenge in both understanding and supporting children’s bereavement experiences. Using longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Scotland study, which tracks the lives of three nationally representative cohorts of children, this paper aimed to address these gaps in research. It specifically drew on data from Birth Cohort 1 to document the recorded bereavements of 2,815 children who completed all 8 sweeps of data collection, from age 10 months to 10 years. Findings: The study found that 50.8% of all children are bereaved of a parent, sibling, grandparent or other close family member by age 8 and this rises to 62% by age 10. The most common death experienced was that of a grandparent or other close relative. The study also found that children born into the lowest income households are at greater risk of being bereaved of a parent or sibling than those born into the highest income households. Discussion and Conclusion: Given the prevalence of childhood bereavement and its relationship with disadvantage, this paper argues that there is an important need to understand bereavement as a universal issue that is affected by the social conditions in which a child becomes bereaved, as well as an individual experience potentially requiring specialist support. This paper thus seeks to position childhood bereavement more firmly within the public health approach to palliative and bereavement care discourse and contends that doing so provides a unique and comprehensive opportunity to better understand and holistically respond to the experience of bereavement during childhood.

Parental Bereavement in Childhood: M.M.P.I. Profiles in a Depressed Population

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (500) ◽  
pp. 761-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian C. Wilson ◽  
Lacoe B. Alltop ◽  
W. J. Buffaloe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Parental Bereavement ◽  
Childhood Bereavement

Recent studies of childhood bereavement in depressive populations (Forrest, Fraser, and Priest, 1965; Munro, 1966) indicate that parental bereavement in childhood may be of aetiological significance in depressive illness (Forrest et al., 1965) and may affect the severity of the clinical picture (Munro, 1966).

Promoting the Adjustment of Parentally Bereaved Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Childhood Bereavement ◽  
Parentally Bereaved ◽  
Bereaved Children ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The death of a parent is one of the most stressful life events to encounter during childhood. Given its detrimental impact on psychological development, a better understanding of outcomes associated with childhood bereavement and factors that affect these outcomes is necessary. The adjustment of bereaved children is linked to such factors as age of the child, sex of child and parent, circumstances of parent death, and the adjustment of the surviving caregiver. In this article I highlight considerations that may increase children's positive adjustment to parental death and also discuss specific treatment recommendations.

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