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Barrera, Maru; Alam, Rifat; D'Agostino, Norma Mammone; Nicholas, David B.; Schneiderman, Gerald – Death Studies, 2013
We investigated longitudinally parental perceptions of siblings' bereavement after childhood cancer death. Parents were interviewed 6 months (n = 25) and 18 months (n = 15) post-death. Data are analyzed combined and over time. The following themes emerged: (a) expression of grief: missing deceased child (verbally, crying), behavioral problems,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Grief, Siblings, Cancer
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Balk, David E. – Death Studies, 2008
The author argues that the term "recovery" aptly describes the trajectory following the bereavement of most persons. While the term "resilience" has gained ascendancy in the thanatology literature and the term "recovery" has been dismissed as inappropriate to denote responses over time to being bereaved, the irony is that all dictionaries of the…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Definitions, Coping
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McFerran, Katrina; Roberts, Melina; O'Grady, Lucy – Death Studies, 2010
Qualitative investigations have indicated that music therapy groups may be beneficial for bereaved teenagers. The existing relationship between young people and music serves as a platform for connectedness and emotional expression that is utilised within a therapeutic, support group format. This investigation confirms this suggestion through…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Grief, Focus Groups, Adolescents
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Brown, Elissa J.; Amaya-Jackson, Lisa; Cohen, Judith; Handel, Stephanie; De Bocanegra, Heike Thiel; Zatta, Eileen; Goodman, Robin F.; Mannarino, Anthony – Death Studies, 2008
This study evaluated the construct of childhood traumatic grief (CTG) and its correlates through a multi-site assessment of 132 bereaved children and adolescents. Youth completed a new measure of the characteristics, attributions, and reactions to exposure to death (CARED), as well as measures of CTG, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),…
Descriptors: Grief, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Caregivers, Children
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2009
This study administered an open-ended questionnaire about death and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MODS) to explore the relationships between personal constructs about death and fears of death among Taiwanese adolescents. The sample included 329 adolescents in junior and senior high school grades 7 to 12. A coding manual was used to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Analysis, Fear, Death
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Kaufman, Kenneth R.; Endres, Jennifer K.; Kaufman, Nathaniel D. – Death Studies, 2007
Conversion disorders, the physical expression of unresolved psychological pain, can be associated with mourning. This case report is third in a series of articles by the authors on childhood mourning reflecting the effects of multiple losses (K. R. Kaufman & N. D. Kaufman, 2005; K. R. Kaufman & N. D. Kaufman, 2006). In this case report, perception…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Accident Prevention, Children, Adolescents
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Noppe, Illene C.; Noppe, Lloyd D.; Bartell, Denise – Death Studies, 2006
This study examined the impact of terrorism on adolescents, who may be resolving developmental issues regarding their vulnerability to death. Approximately 4 months after the September 11th attacks, a survey was given to 973 Upper Midwest adolescents and teachers. Quantitative analyses indicated that adolescents (especially girls) were frightened…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Terrorism, Student Attitudes
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2006
The study explores development of the concept of death among 204 Chinese children and adolescents and analyzes the relationships between death concept development and background variables. A coding manual for content analysis of death constructs adapted from R. A. Neimeyer et al. (1983) was used to classify each construct in the paragraphs written…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Adolescents, Content Analysis, Emotional Response