Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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Bereavement Groups for Parents Who Have Lost a Child: A Qualitative Study of Parental Experiences in a Danish Context. [PDF]
Scand J Caring SciBeck M +3 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, children and youth (‘young people’) have been increasingly conceptualised as moral agents with rights and capacities to be meaningfully engaged in decisions affecting them. While evidence suggests that social spaces are opening to prioritise listening to these voices, gaps still exist.
Sydney Campbell +5 more
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Parental loss: prevalence estimates and mental health impacts from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. [PDF]
Aust J PsycholBreen LJ +4 more
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Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children encounter death in everyday life, through family, peers, media, and health care. Opportunities for meaningful engagement with death‐related topics are limited. In this article, we reimagine death literacy—the knowledge and skills needed to navigate dying, death, and bereavement—through a child‐centred, social constructionist lens ...
Anne‐Sofie Nyström, Rakel Eklund
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Caregiver speaks: a randomized controlled trial of a storytelling intervention for hospice family caregivers of persons with dementia. [PDF]
GerontologistRolbiecki AJ +9 more
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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Support needs, support use and perceived helpfulness of support in a cohort of people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a longitudinal survey. [PDF]
Front Public HealthGoss S +9 more
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‘Do You Realise People Are Dying There?!’: Ukrainian Adolescents Reflecting on Death During Wartime
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Romania think and speak about death and loss amid war and displacement. While contemporary Western societies display an unprecedented visibility of death, they continue to exclude children from genuine conversations about mortality, maintaining a protective silence.
Adriana Teodorescu, Alina Bărbuță
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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas +2 more
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