Parent-Child Communication in Bereaved Israeli Families

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13629602
AutoresPhyllis R Silverman (School of Social Work, Haifa University and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, autor correspondente), Anita Weiner (Haifa University, Israel), Nava Elad (Haifa University, Israel)
Ano1995
Volume31
Fascículo4
Páginas275-293
Data de publicação1995-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/et3f-c90v-l172-pjcn
OpenAlexW2034446971
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas7

The nature of surviving parent-child communication in bereaved Israeli families is examined in terms of the culture of Israeli society. Concern is with the way the culture frames the parent-child relationship in the period shortly after the death. Twenty-three surviving parents and their forty-three children between ages of six and sixteen were interviewed four months after the death. Both parents and children seemed concerned with protecting each other from the pain and sadness associated with the loss. Two types of families were identified. In the open family, language is used to console and inform. Parents see themselves as able to respond to their child(ren)'s needs. Less open families used language to influence the child to avoid their feelings and confronting the death. These surviving parents often saw the deceased as the competent family caregiver

Anger · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Grief · Psychiatry · Sadness · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology