Children's Grief: Theoretical Conceptualization of the Problem

<p><strong>The relevance</strong> of the theoretical conceptualization of children's grief is due to the high importance of psychological assistance to children in the situation of loss of a parent. <strong>The purpose</strong> of this article is to desc...

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Main Author: A.A. Bakanova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2023-10-01
Series:Консультативная психология и психотерапия
Online Access:https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/cpp/archive/2023_n3/Bakanova
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description <p><strong>The relevance</strong> of the theoretical conceptualization of children's grief is due to the high importance of psychological assistance to children in the situation of loss of a parent. <strong>The purpose</strong> of this article is to describe the main theoretical positions conceptualizing the idea of children's grief based on the analysis of psychological literature. <strong>Results.</strong> Theoretical analysis has shown that the problem of child grief in the literature is represented by the following 4 aspects: the impact of the loss of a parent on the mental health of a child; age-related features of child grief; the stages of child grief; ideas about normal and complicated child grief. The analysis of these aspects allowed us to conclude that throughout the history of the study of childhood grief, the position of researchers has changed from indicating an unambiguous connection between the loss of a parent in childhood and subsequent mental health disorders in adulthood to recognizing the influence of many factors on childhood grief that can help a child adapt to loss. The main theoretical <strong>provisions </strong>conceptualizing the problem of child grief at the present stage of its study are formulated as conclusions.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-202d62dd7ea44f6794301536206ffe7e2024-02-01T20:13:19ZrusMoscow State University of Psychology and EducationКонсультативная психология и психотерапия2075-34702311-94462023-10-01313284610.17759/cpp.2023310302Children's Grief: Theoretical Conceptualization of the ProblemA.A. Bakanova0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5062-6210Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen (FSBEI HE RGPU named after A.I. Herzen) <p><strong>The relevance</strong> of the theoretical conceptualization of children's grief is due to the high importance of psychological assistance to children in the situation of loss of a parent. <strong>The purpose</strong> of this article is to describe the main theoretical positions conceptualizing the idea of children's grief based on the analysis of psychological literature. <strong>Results.</strong> Theoretical analysis has shown that the problem of child grief in the literature is represented by the following 4 aspects: the impact of the loss of a parent on the mental health of a child; age-related features of child grief; the stages of child grief; ideas about normal and complicated child grief. The analysis of these aspects allowed us to conclude that throughout the history of the study of childhood grief, the position of researchers has changed from indicating an unambiguous connection between the loss of a parent in childhood and subsequent mental health disorders in adulthood to recognizing the influence of many factors on childhood grief that can help a child adapt to loss. The main theoretical <strong>provisions </strong>conceptualizing the problem of child grief at the present stage of its study are formulated as conclusions.</p>https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/cpp/archive/2023_n3/Bakanova
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