CHILD deathGENDER rolePSYCHOLOGICAL adaptationGRIEFPARENTSBased on a close reading of 118 Tang epitaphs for those who died young, this paper explores how Tang parents remembered and recounted their children's lives as well as factors that contributed to the rise of intense expressi...
Learn about the stages of grief, how the order of the 5 stages of grief can be differnt for different people, and how the grief stages affect your handling grief. Loss of a child, CJ's Story CJ Couvillion writes openly and honestly about his experience with the loss of a child, his...
doi:10.12968/eyed.2012.14.8.28Amy SmytheCurrent HealthHelpguide.org. (2012). Coping with grief and loss. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/grief_loss.htmSmith, M.J.S., 2012. Coping with grief and loss. Helpguide.org.
Grief is difficult for everyone. We surveyed 1,000 parents of 3-16 year olds to see how they come to terms with the loss of a loved one. Read more.
Results attest to the severe impact of this type of loss across multiple dimensions of parents' lives. More social approaches are then reviewed. The impact of a child's death has been shown across diverse social phenomena (which also affect individual grief and grieving), including informal and...
Loss through adoption A child who is adopted out of its own family suffers loss which does not appear to be addressed. Is this not a valid field of study? As such a child, with subsequent psychological problems, such as unresolved anger, loss of a family in childhood and the help given...
What is Grief and Coping with LossBy Karen ZinnCoping with loss is perhaps the most painful event we will ever experience. It's normal to feel caught up in a whirlwind of strong emotions. Sadness one day, anger the next. It can feel overwhelming, but it is part of the normal grieving...
The Year of Magical Thinking explores the grief of partner loss and the idea of "magical thinking." Didion describes a time in her life when she was expecting her husband to return. She writes candidly about dealing with her grief while caring for her ill child. This story talks about ...
With time, the intensity of these waves may lessen, but the sense of loss for our loved ones never truly disappears. It’s natural to wonder how long grief will last, but there’s no set timeline. Some people may grieve for a few days or weeks, while others may grieve f...
The grief-relief process: coping with the life and death of physically and mentally disabled children Many parents of children with severe physical and mental deficits appear to be in conflict between two ambivalent emotions, wanting to live with their child and needing to be relieved from their ...