Positive Parenting as a Mediator of the Relations Between Parental Psychological Distress and Mental Health Problems of Parentally Bereaved Children

Kwok, Oi‐Man; Haine, Rachel A.; Sandler, Irwin N.; Ayers, Tim; Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Tein, Jenn-Yun

doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp3402_5

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“…72 Similarly, people with ID experience psychological and behavioral disturbance in reaction to significant life events. [73][74][75][76] In children, the literature suggests that the best predictors of good outcome are those that shield against secondary loss: a good relationship with a surviving parent who is competent in parenting bereaved children [77][78][79][80] and a stable family environment promoted by strong family organization, cohesion, communication, and role differentiation. 8,81 It seems reasonable to infer that maintaining stability in the home is critical for the well-being of bereaved individuals with ID.…”

Section: Secondary Loss and Coping With Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grief and its Complications in Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Brickell¹,

Münir²

2008

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

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Bereavement and loss have significant impact on the lives of individuals with intellectual disability (ID). Although there is a growing impetus to define the symptoms of grief that predict long-term functional impairment, little is known about maladaptive grieving among individuals with ID. We examine the literature concerning the phenomenology of traumatic grief (TG) in the general population, along with what is known about the manifestations of grief in individuals with ID. We then apply modern theories of grief and grief resolution to individuals with ID in order to highlight potential areas of vulnerability in this population and to lay the groundwork for interventions that will facilitate their adaptation to loss. We provide a theoretical framework for the proposition that individuals (including children and adults) with ID are more susceptible to TG, based on an increased risk of secondary loss, barriers to communicating about the loss, and difficulty finding meaning in the loss. We conclude that individuals with ID should be considered as potential candidates for targeted bereavement interventions. Further research is required, however, in order to develop population-appropriate measurement scales for testing these hypotheses. Keywords grief; bereavement; intellectual disabilityEarly psychodynamic theories of grief suggest that only those who are capable of understanding the finality of death, and who are able to perform the arduous psychological task of withdrawing emotion from the deceased, will be capable of mourning. [1][2][3][4] Even without a cognitive understanding of death, however, it is possible to notice the absence of a loved one and to react emotionally to that loss. In his formulation of attachment theory, John Bowlby 5-7 provided the first theoretical framework for the proposition that even young children can grieve following the loss of an attachment figure. Since then, studies have confirmed that children react with grief, sadness, and despair to the death of loved ones. 8 Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) have long been considered incapable of griefjust as young children once were. It has been suggested that individuals with ID * do not possess either the necessary capacity to form meaningful relationships 9,10 or the necessary

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Section: Secondary Loss and Coping With Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grief and its Complications in Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Brickell¹,

Münir²

2008

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

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“…Interrater reliability, assessed using mean Kappa (k) (Cohen, 1960) across an average of two or three raters per code, was k = .77 for positive affective tone, k = .83 for back channeling, and k = .80 for head nods. Kwok et al (2005) conducted a CFA to examine a multireporter, multimethod second-order factor model of caregiver-child relationship quality measured by the above questionnaire and behavioral observation measures of positive caregiver-child relationship and questionnaire measures of discipline using the pretest data employed in the current study. They found that the model fits the data adequately (χ 2 [113, N = 211] = 207.45, df = 113, p < .001; CFI = .93; RMSEA = .062; SRMR = .063).…”

Section: Caregiver-child Relationship Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They found that the model fits the data adequately (χ 2 [113, N = 211] = 207.45, df = 113, p < .001; CFI = .93; RMSEA = .062; SRMR = .063). A composite of the standardized scores of the measures employed as indicators for the caregiverchild relationship quality construct by Kwok et al (2005) was used in the present study. 3…”

Section: Caregiver-child Relationship Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stressors, Quality of the Child–Caregiver Relationship, and Children's Mental Health Problems After Parental Death: The Mediating Role of Self-System Beliefs

Wolchik

Tein

Sandler

et al. 2006

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Investigated whether three self-system beliefs, fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem, mediated the relations of stressors and caregiver-child relationship quality with concurrent and prospective internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of children who had experienced parental death in the previous 2.5 years. The cross-sectional sample consisted of 340 children ages 7-16 and their surviving parent/current caregiver; the longitudinal analyses employed a subset of this sample that consisted of 100 children and their parents/caregivers who were assessed at three time points. A multirater, multimethod measure of caregiver-child relationship quality and a multirater measure of children's mental health problems were used. The cross-sectional model supported a mediational relation for fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem. The three-wave longitudinal model showed that fear of abandonment at Time 2 mediated the relation between stressors at Time 1 and internalizing and externalizing problems at Time 3. Implications of these findings for understanding the development of mental health problems in parentally bereaved children and designing interventions for this at-risk group are discussed.

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“…Responsive parenting is fundamental for adaptive child outcomes in development (Kwok et al, 2005). After the death of his or her partner, the surviving parent may have difficulties in carrying out the role of parent (Saldinger, Porterfield, & Cain, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychopathological Risk in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents

Cimino¹,

Cerniglia²,

Ballarotto³

et al. 2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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For a child, the death of a parent is a traumatic experience and can give rise to several difficulties during the child's development. International literature in this field has focused on clinical populations; evaluations of the psychological difficulties in adulthood have rarely been aimed at non-referred samples. The present study assessed the psychological functioning of a non-referred sample of adolescents, with consideration given to the impact of the loss of a caregiver during childhood on their psychological profiles. It also evaluated the association between the adolescents' psychological profiles and possible psychopathological risk in the surviving parents. Three groups of subjects (N=96) were considered: adolescents who had suffered the loss before 3 years of age (Group A);

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Positive Parenting as a Mediator of the Relations Between Parental Psychological Distress and Mental Health Problems of Parentally Bereaved Children

Cited by 96 publications

References 48 publications

Grief and its Complications in Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Grief and its Complications in Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Stressors, Quality of the Child–Caregiver Relationship, and Children's Mental Health Problems After Parental Death: The Mediating Role of Self-System Beliefs

Psychopathological Risk in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents

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