Adolescents’ Experiences of Having a Stillborn Half-Sibling

Avelin, Pernilla; Gyllenswärd, Göran; Erlandsson, Kerstin; Rådestad, Ingela

doi:10.1080/07481187.2013.809034

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“…Alternatively, cooperative relationships between divorced coparents were positively associated with stepsiblings' relationship quality (Ahrons, ). In Sweden, 13 adolescents were interviewed about their experiences of having a stillborn half sibling (Avelin, Gyllensward, Erlandsson, & Radestad, ). Adolescents described mourning the loss of their expected half sibling, and sometimes mourning the relationships they had with parents before the stillborn birth.…”

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Half‐Sibling and Stepsibling Relationships: A Systematic Integrative Review

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Russell

Coleman

et al. 2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Increases in divorce, remarriage, and stepfamily formation have added complexity to sibling composition. Biological siblings have been found to be key players in children's lives, and relationships with half and stepsiblings also likely influence individual development and adjustment. In this systematic integrative review, we synthesize and critique 46 studies on half and stepsibling relationships, a literature that has seen marked growth in recent years. Researchers have focused predominately on two areas: individual outcomes associated with having half or stepsiblings and predictors of half and stepsibling relationship quality. Although research designs have become more methodologically sophisticated, deficit-comparison studies in which half and stepsiblings are compared to siblings in nuclear families remain common. We discuss challenges in studying sibling complexity and propose opportunities for examining how half and stepsibling relationships may contribute to individual and family resilience.Increases in divorce, cohabitation, and remarriage have led to greater complexity of sibling compositions in families. In a recent nationwide survey, three in 10 American adults reported having a half or stepsibling, a number that was 314 Gentry Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 (cms4qc@mail.missouri.edu).

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Section: Results Of the Systematic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Half‐Sibling and Stepsibling Relationships: A Systematic Integrative Review

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Coleman

et al. 2018

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“…A handful of studies in the area of pregnancy loss and infant death have addressed children's experiences with losing a baby sibling. Most of this work has focused on adults (see Avelin, Gyllenswärd, Erlandsson, & Rådestad, 2014;Jonas-Simpson, Steele, Grankey, Davies, & O'Leary, 2015; for exceptions) reflecting back on their childhood. Findings center around individual emotional challenges, difficulties communicating within the context of the family, and the ways the death of a baby sibling enriched children's lives (Avelin et al, 2014;Fanos, Little, & Edwards, 2009;Jonas-Simpson et al, 2015;Kempson & Murdock, 2010;O'Leary & Gaziano, 2011;O'Leary, Gaziano, & Thorwick, 2006).…”

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A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings

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Droser

Hoyt

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Journal of Family Communication

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Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by performing a visual narrative analysis of children's baby loss remembrance drawings. This analysis of 131 drawings completed by children ages zero to 18 yielded three main themes, including narration of identity, narration of life and death, and narration of growing sense-making. Two continua capture these themes, including the subject of narrativization and the mode of narrativization. In presenting these findings, we provide a unique (means of) understanding children's experience of baby loss in the family. The field of family communication studies was created with the goal of understanding the unique experiences of the family unit. However, though conceptions of family and the experiences of family members have become increasingly complicated, the methodological approaches family communication scholars use have remained relatively fixed (Droser, 2017; Suter, 2016). In line with the recently proposed critical family communication approach (see Suter, 2016), the current study begins to push the boundaries of what is considered within the purview of family communication studies by embracing a complicated and understudied topic-bereaved children's experience of the death of a baby in the family-and engaging a less traditional type of research method-visual narrative analysis. This work explicitly answers Faulkner's (2016) call for more arts-based research within the field. Through enacting a visual

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“…[3][4][5] The relation between siblings is perhaps the most significant and lasting relation that if you live The child, who loses a brother during his or her childhood or adolescence, is naturally the family member who lives the most time with this loss. 2,[6][7]30 It is explained that in the situation where there is a child / adolescent with a complex chronic life-limiting illness, which may even be prolonged for some time and which is understandably the center of care for the whole family, the brother resents for lack of equal attention, 9,24 loses visibility within his own family, 10,28 sometimes receiving messages from close friends to restrain his hurt, to be strong by his parents. These behaviors lead the child to feel that the pain of their loss is discredited, devalued, misunderstood, ignored.…”

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“…It is believed that the loss of a child alters the family 25 and the relationship between parents and siblings by the fact that the mourning lived is not only for the loss of the brother's identity, 20 but also for the relationship lost with his parents. 2,10,12, Many people often try hard to find the support and support they have lost with the death of their brothers. This uneasiness, of regaining the emotional equilibrium of once, of erasing the pain of loss, of loneliness, sometimes leads to many decisions of life being governed by these aspects.…”

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Perder um irmão até à adolescência - a experiência e o significado na vida adulta

Ramos

2018

Rev enferm UFPE on line.

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Objetivo: descrever a experiência de perder um irmão durante a infância e a adolescência, o seu significado para a vida adulta e identificar as implicações para assistência no âmbito da saúde, em particular para a enfermagem. Métodos: estudo fenomenológico de natureza interpretativa, no qual participaram vinte e uma pessoas da comunidade, selecionadas intencionalmente, respeitando critérios previamente estabelecidos. Para a colheita da informação foram realizadas entrevistas não-estruturadas e necessariamente em profundidade. Resultados: O fenómeno revelou-se pela narrativa das participantes através de cinco temas comuns que foram denominados: “Ecos da vivência do luto fraterno”; “À procura de uma justificação”; “A felicidade é momentos!”; “Fontes de força interior” e “A vida e a saúde hoje”. Conclusões: a vivência de um processo de luto fraterno durante a infância ou adolescência moldou a vida dos participantes, especificamente os comportamentos face às suas relações e, mais tarde, o significado atribuído à saúde. Reconhece-se a importância na identificação dos sinais e das caraterísticas de uma perda fraterna experienciada durante a infância ou adolescência, e da avaliação do impacto da mesma na sua vida e das suas famílias, que podem fundamentar uma intervenção de enfermagem planeada com vista a minimizar os efeitos que possam surgir na vida adulta. Identifica-se o impacto da morte da criança na vida dos irmãos e de outros conviventes e o modelo de intervenção que aborda necessariamente a relação de ajuda à família enlutada, de forma integrada.

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Adolescents’ Experiences of Having a Stillborn Half-Sibling

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Half‐Sibling and Stepsibling Relationships: A Systematic Integrative Review

Half‐Sibling and Stepsibling Relationships: A Systematic Integrative Review

A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings

Perder um irmão até à adolescência - a experiência e o significado na vida adulta

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