There’s No Place Like Home: Preparing Children for Geographical and Relational Attachment Disruptions Following Parental Death to Cancer

Werner‐Lin, Allison; Biank, Nancee; Rubenstein, Betsy

doi:10.1007/s10615-009-0233-1

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“…[1] Four studies in the review, as set out in Table 2, were scored as highly relevant for this study. [6,30,33,34] Werner-Lin et al found that, when children of divorced parents have a custodial critically ill parent, they experience loneliness, depression and worry about who will take care of them when their parents die. When their custodial parent dies, they experience multiple losses, such as loss of lifestyle, home, relatives and friends.…”

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“…The loss of the house symbolizes loss of attachment to the lost parent, and the transition to a new home and a new custodial adult or parent leaves the child with stress. [6] The child may blame the death and former divorce on the former non-custodial parent, and this may have an impact on the new bonding. They also found that a therapeutic relationship may help the child in the years after the custodial parent's death and through the transition process.…”

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“…This loss may symbolize the attachment to the deceased parent and any other relatives, and perhaps also to the lifestyle the child used to have. [6,32] If the new custodial parent or any step-parent is not mourning, the child may experience a lack of acknowledgment or understanding of its own feelings, which may cause a disenfranchised grief reaction. [6,33] …”

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“…[25] However, the challenges are different, depending on whether it is the custodial or the non-custodial parent that might die or is dead. [6] When the custodial parent dies, the child may already have fears of commitment as a consequence of the divorce and may be vulnerable in relationships. [32] If a critically ill custodial parent avoids addressing possible living arrangements for the children's future, subsequent transitions may be impeded.…”

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“…[4] These figures correspond well with estimates from USA, suggesting that around 50% of children who have experienced parental death, have experienced parental divorce earlier in life. [5,6] Thus, a substantial proportion of children and adolescents who experience parental death or a critically ill parent may also have a former experience of parental divorce.…”

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Parental divorce and parental death - An integrative systematic review of children’s double bereavement

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The aim of this review was to identify research on children and adolescents who experience double bereavement, i.e. the experience of loss through parental divorce followed by either parental death or critical illness with imminent death. This knowledge may identify evidence to underpin knowledge and practice for nurses and other health professionals, so they can intervene with these children and adolescents more efficaciously. An integrative systematic review was conducted using PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO. The results show four major themes: Complexity in their experiences of double bereavement; challenges in both custodial and non-custodial parental death; risk of mental health problems, and the need of support and interventions.

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Children and adolescents’ preferences for support when living with a dying parent – An integrative review

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Living with a dying parent when one is at a young age is considered among the most traumatic experiences a person can have (Phillips, 2014). The loss can result in physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural problems, and many children and adolescents, in this study defined as 2-18 years of age (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1989; World Health Organization, 2001), struggle for years after the parent's death (Phillips, 2014;Torbic, 2011). This study was conducted from the children and adolescents' perspective and focuses on their preferences for support during the period before and immediately after the parent's death. In this context, preferences are linked to children and adolescents' first choice in how they want to be supported. This includes both support from professionals and other social networks. Such knowledge is needed when designing interventions to prevent ill health among bereaved children and adolescents and to improve the quality of palliative care. The consequences of not exploring different preferences may be that supportive interventions do not work as they should, and thus unsatisfactory help is generated for this vulnerable group. | BACKG ROU N DChildren and adolescents living with a parent who has a lifethreatening illness are at risk of developing long-lasting symptoms and ill health. To eliminate outcomes such as low self-esteem, behavioural difficulties (e.g., anger and aggression), long-term illness

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Long‐term effects of experiencing childhood parental death on mental and physical health: A NESDA study

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Rosinda

et al. 2023

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Experiencing parental death during childhood is an adverse, potentially traumatic experience that may have substantial long‐term effects on mental and physical well‐being. The current study was based on data of the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety to investigate mental health (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and suicidal ideation) and physical health outcomes (i.e., metabolic syndrome, telomere length, and perceived physical health) as well as health behaviour (i.e., smoking status, alcohol use, and physical activity) to provide more insight into the long‐term outcomes after experiencing childhood parental death (CPD). For individuals who experienced CPD, we also investigated the role of loss‐related factors in these associations, namely the age of the child when their parent passed away and gender of the deceased parent. Interviews and questionnaires were completed by adults between 18 and 65 years; 177 participants experienced CPD (mean age = 45.19, 61.6% female) and 2463 did not (mean age = 41.38, 66.6% female). Results showed no overall association between the experience of CPD and mental and physical health indices and health behaviour. Within the CPD group, experiencing CPD at a younger age was related to a higher likelihood of suicidal ideation. These findings seem to illustrate a general positive adjustment with regard to long‐term health functioning after experiencing such an impactful life event. Future research should focus on individual differences in terms of adaptation, especially elucidating on contextual factors after the loss, such as the kind of support that is or is not provided by the surviving parent and/or other important individuals.

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There’s No Place Like Home: Preparing Children for Geographical and Relational Attachment Disruptions Following Parental Death to Cancer

Cited by 19 publications

References 20 publications

Parental divorce and parental death - An integrative systematic review of children’s double bereavement

Parental divorce and parental death - An integrative systematic review of children’s double bereavement

Children and adolescents’ preferences for support when living with a dying parent – An integrative review

Long‐term effects of experiencing childhood parental death on mental and physical health: A NESDA study

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