Child Survivors of Intimate Partner Homicide: Wraparound Intervention

Websdale, Neil

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“…The death of a parent, especially a mother, is one of the most stressful events a child could experience. Due to children's physical and psychological dependence on their parents, the stress resulting from the death of a beloved maternal attachment figure is compounded by the stress of the mother's absence throughout the child's developmental stages (Websdale, 2020). When a parent dies of homicide, and when the person responsible for the homicide is the child's other parent, trauma and grief interact and intensify (Alisic et al, 2017; Pitcho-Prelorentzos et al, 2022).…”

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Mitigating Loss and Trauma: The Continuing Bonds Experience of Daughters Bereaved to Intimate Partner Femicide

Pitcho‐Prelorentzos

Leshem

Mahat‐Shamir

2022

Violence Against Women

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The current study sheds light on the continuing bonds experience of adult Israeli daughters whose mothers were murdered by their fathers. Through 11 semi structured interviews, common externalized and internalized continuing bonds with the deceased mothers were closely examined. The interpreted results supported the existence of bonds, yet revealed a unique manifestation; the bonds were purposefully and defensively restricted, which seemed to be an adjustive compromise in light of the strong traumatic component of the loss. Our results contribute to the theoretical and clinical understanding of the restrictive effect that trauma components have on loss components in cases of traumatic bereavement.

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Mitigating Loss and Trauma: The Continuing Bonds Experience of Daughters Bereaved to Intimate Partner Femicide

Pitcho‐Prelorentzos

Leshem

Mahat‐Shamir

2022

Violence Against Women

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Shattered Voices: Daughters’ Meaning Reconstruction in Loss of a Mother to Intimate Partner Homicide

Pitcho‐Prelorentzos

Leshem

Mahat-Shamir

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner homicide is a major public health concern around the world and the most lethal outcome of domestic violence. Its impact on the surviving bereaved offspring is immense, yet there is a significant gap in the literature regarding the long-term effects of this type of loss. The current qualitative study is aimed at filling this gap. The study used the constructivist paradigm of bereavement as a theoretical background to reveal the meanings constructed by bereaved Israeli daughters whose biological mothers were killed in acts of intimate partner homicide by their biological fathers. Three main themes of meaning emerged from 12 in-depth semi-structured interviews: “destruction of one’s home”; “blast injury”; and “in doubt”. An examination of the three themes in the current study reveals a deep shatter in participants’ world of meaning to its very basic foundations. In light of intense psychological and social forces, the participants constructed and reconstructed such narratives of meaning in a continuous process of meaning making throughout their lives, years, and decades post loss. Derived from the findings are implications for practice. Mental healthcare professionals must attend to this basic shatter with an extreme level of caution, as they help homicide survivors reconstruct a world of meaning shattered by loss. Moreover, the long-lasting effects emphasize an appropriate legal and political involvement; specifically, policy regulations and rights should provide psychosocial care programs that are suited to the needs of offspring co-victims of intimate partner homicide in particular. In light of the strong social influence on participants’ loss experience, further efforts are required to raise social awareness about this burning social concern and to fight the stigmatization of co-victims of homicide in general and co-victims of intimate partner homicide in particular.

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Child Survivors of Intimate Partner Homicide: Wraparound Intervention

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Mitigating Loss and Trauma: The Continuing Bonds Experience of Daughters Bereaved to Intimate Partner Femicide

Mitigating Loss and Trauma: The Continuing Bonds Experience of Daughters Bereaved to Intimate Partner Femicide

Shattered Voices: Daughters’ Meaning Reconstruction in Loss of a Mother to Intimate Partner Homicide

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