Parental coping with their child's death

Autor: Josette Hoekstra, Jane Littlewood, G. B. Humphrey, Duncan Cramer
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 4:135-141
ISSN: 1469-3674
0951-5070
DOI: 10.1080/09515079108256717
Popis: The impact of the death of 19 children form malignancy on subsequent patterns of parental coping was evaluated in a retrospective study of 33 Dutch parents, who had been bereaved for 19 months on average. Parents who had lost older children were compared with those who had lost younger ones on the Utrecht Coping List, which has been compared with a Dutch norm group. Coping styles of the bereaved parents differed significantly from those of the norm group. These differences were associated with the poorer mental health of the bereaved group as a whole. Parents of older children coped less well than those of younger ones.
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