Maternal grief: analysis and therapeutic recommendations.
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The following self-analysis contains key experiences of maternal grief over the course of the first 2 years following the death of a child, with specific examples and observations from bereaved mothers shared with the author.Abstract:
The following self-analysis contains key experiences of maternal grief over the course of the first 2 years following the death of a child, with specific examples and observations from bereaved mothers shared with the author. The references provide supporting evidence for commonality of the lived experience and observations. Therapeutic responses for clinicians give concrete direction for providing effective comfort. Self-care suggestions for mothers provide specific guidance for the readers. A 14-year retrospective epilogue puts the charged emotional description into a context of healing.read more
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Bereaved Parents’ Health Status During the First 6 Months After Their Child’s Death
TL;DR: Examining bereaved parents’ physical, mental, and social health during the first 6 months after their child’s (<12 years) death from a life-threatening illness highlights the “at-risk” health status of bereavedParents.
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Associations of Losing a Child With the Couple Relationship, Maternal Mental Health, and the Emotional Development of the Subsequent Baby.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the association among child loss, maternal mental health (including prolonged grief), couple adjustment, and psycho-functional symptoms in subsequent babies, and found that mothers with a baby loss (23%) presented greater age and religiosity, less income, a longer couple relationship, and better couple adjustment.
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O tempo do luto materno pelo filho que morreu na infância
Maria Augusta Rocha Bezerra,Ruth Cardoso Rocha,Cristianne Teixeira Carneiro,Karla Nayalle de Souza Rocha,Diogo Filipe Santos Moura,Silvana Santiago da Rocha +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Martin Heidegger discuss o movimento existencial da mae apos a morte do filho por acidente domestico na infância.
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O tempo do luto materno pelo filho que morreu na infância
TL;DR: The authors discuss a movimento existencial da mãe após a morte do filho por acidente doméstico na infância.
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Death of children by domestic accidents: unveiling the maternal experience.
Maria Augusta Rocha Bezerra,Ruth Cardoso Rocha,Karla Nayalle de Souza Rocha,Diogo Filipe Santos Moura,Marialda Moreira Christoffel,Ivis Emília de Oliveira Souza,Silvana Santiago da Rocha +6 more
TL;DR: It was revealed that the death of the child in infancy compromises the integrality of being a mother, indicating the need for systematic and continuous care for the adequate management of the emotional and social effects.
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Long-Term Effects of the Death of a Child on Parents’ Adjustment in Midlife
TL;DR: Bereaved parents of deceased children and comparison parents with similar backgrounds identified in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study reported more depressive symptoms, poorer well-being, and more health problems and were more likely to have experienced a depressive episode and marital disruption than were comparison parents.
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Long-term Effects of Child Death on Parents' Health Related Quality of Life: A Dyadic Analysis.
TL;DR: Bereaved parents whose child died in violent circumstances had particularly low levels of HRQoL, and multilevel models indicated that marital closeness mitigated the negative effects of bereavement.
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An investigation of physical and mental health consequences among Chinese parents who lost their only child.
Qianlan Yin,Zhilei Shang,Na Zhou,Lili Wu,Guangyu Liu,Xiaoqian Yu,Huaihui Zhang,Haidong Xue,Weizhi Liu +8 more
TL;DR: Shidu parents have more severe mental health problems and a higher rate of chronic diseases than parents who have aliving child and more severe psychiatric disorders compared to parents with a living child.
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Prevalence and predictors of symptoms of anxiety and depression, and comorbid symptoms of distress in parents of childhood cancer survivors and bereaved parents five years after end of treatment or a child's death.
TL;DR: A subset of parents report clinically elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression, comorbid anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress, which are associated with more severe psychological distress at five years after end of treatment/a child’s death.
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“Our Only Child Has Died”—A Study of Bereaved Older Chinese Parents:
TL;DR: The results confirmed the general deteriorating trend in those aspects of the bereaved Chinese parents’ life after their only child’s death and revealed the impairments on the shiduers’ physical, mental, and social aspects were significant, compared to the clinical diagnosis cutoff points used in Western countries.