ReviewJournal of clinical psychology in medical settings2019
The Grief of Parents After the Death of a Young Child.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- The psychological consequences of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) for the family system: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
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- Prolonged grief and insomnia symptoms in cancer-bereaved parents: a latent class analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Perceptions and attitudes of midwives toward breast milk expression following perinatal loss.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Navigating family dynamics following the loss of a child to cancer: a qualitative phenomenological study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Grief, bereavement and prolonged grief disorder: scoping and mapping the evidence.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Children's palliative care and public health: position statement.BMC palliative care · 2025Review
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Family Experiences: A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Resilience.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- "Understanding why she had to leave me": The roles of religion and spirituality in narratives of parents grieving the loss of a child to cancer.Death studies · 2025Article
- Qualitative inquiry into the experience of suicide loss, aftereffects and coping strategies of suicide-bereaved Greek-speaking parents in Cyprus.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Bereaved mothers' experience of expressing and donating breast milk: An interpretative phenomenological study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
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- The Association between Therapeutic Alliance and Parental Health Outcomes following a Child's Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2023Article
- Self-management guidelines for youth who have lost a family provider through HIV/AIDS.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Support within the Context of Perinatal Palliative Care: The "SORROWFUL" Model.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The silent cry: A psychiatric-mental health nurse's guide for fathers experiencing perinatal loss.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2022Review
- Bereaved parents' perspectives on their child's end-of-life care: connecting a self-report questionnaire and interview data from the nationwide Paediatric End-of-LIfe CAre Needs in Switzerland (PELICAN) study.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Pediatric Palliative Care in Oncology: Basic Principles.Cancers · 2022Review
- Complicated Grief, Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Bereaved Parents following their Child's Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Study.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Article
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Abstract
Research demonstrates that severe forms of grief and grief-related pathology exist in the general population. Less attention, however, has been paid to the grief of parents following the death of a young, dependent child. In this review, we summarize a search of Pubmed, PsycINFO and Web of Science from 1995 to 2017, using the terms 'parental complicated grief', 'parental traumatic grief', and 'parent Prolonged Grief Disorder', specifically addressing parental grief and identified risk factors for complicated or prolonged grief. Forty-two studies met criteria and indicate a significant burden of complicated or prolonged grief in parents of children dying from virtually any cause. It appears that the empiric literature is undermined by great variability, including the composition of samples, the causes of death studied, the psychometric measures used, and post-loss intervals. We conclude that the uniform severity of grief experiences following the death of a young child is potentially a distinct subtype of grief, deserving of attention in its own right in future research and diagnostic formulations.
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