Grief after the death of a close relative: a study of associated factors and perceptions of bereavement support. [PDF]
Näppä U, Häggström M.
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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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Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood
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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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
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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"Golden" moments and more in grief talk: Healthcare professionals' approaches to discussing loss and grief with parents of children with severe neurological impairment. [PDF]
Brennan E, Guerin S.
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‘Do You Realise People Are Dying There?!’: Ukrainian Adolescents Reflecting on Death During Wartime
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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'I'm tired of justifying why my life has stopped': A qualitative analysis of the experiences and support needs of young people caring at the end of life and into bereavement. [PDF]
Harrop E +10 more
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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres
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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"As Long as I Live, My Sweet Boy You'll Be:" Parents' Continuing Bonds in Early Bereavement. [PDF]
Herold B +3 more
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