Becoming a Bereaved Parent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ester Holte Kofod (0000-0003-4463-012X, Aalborg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 70-86 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.70 |
| OpenAlex | W2626009954 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and professional accounts depict normal grief as a transitory state, parental accounts present grief as a continuing and open-ended relationship with the dead child. In acknowledgment of this, I present fragmentary, non-reifying narratives of the continuing realities of becoming a bereaved parent
Art · Autoethnography · Developmental psychology · Grief · Literature · Lived experience · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
Evocative Autoethnography
Death Without Weeping
Prolonged Grief Disorder
Posttraumatic growth
Grief as a normative phenomenon
Perinatal Loss and Parental Grief
The Myth of the Replacement Child
Unearthing the Construct of Transgenerational Grief
Hierarchies of Loss
The Research Interview as Discourses Crossing Swords
Explaining Disability
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |