The grief of parents of murdered children: a suggested model for intervention

The grief of parents who have lost children to murder is extreme, prolonged, and unique. The authors, themselves bereaved by homicide, suggest a model to facilitate understanding such grief and to guide intervention. The model postulates that homicide survivor grief occurs in three arenas: the priva...

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Published inHolistic nursing practice Vol. 14; no. 1; p. 22
Main Authors Schmidt Kashka, M, Beard, M T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.1999
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Child
Criminal Law
Crisis Intervention - methods
Female
Grief
Holistic Nursing - methods
Homicide - psychology
Humans
Male
Mass Media
Models, Psychological
Parents - psychology
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Summary:The grief of parents who have lost children to murder is extreme, prolonged, and unique. The authors, themselves bereaved by homicide, suggest a model to facilitate understanding such grief and to guide intervention. The model postulates that homicide survivor grief occurs in three arenas: the private, personal world; the public world of the media; and the world of the criminal justice system. Each arena contains features unique to homicide survivor bereavement. These features are described for the reader.
ISSN:0887-9311
DOI:10.1097/00004650-199910000-00006