| Abstract: |
[argue that] despite the recognized clinical importance of family communication about parental illness or death to children's adjustment to these crises, it has been a central focus of surprisingly little empirical research in the field of childhood bereavement / as part of an evaluation study of a parent guidance intervention to facilitate children's healthy adaptation to a parent's terminal illness and subsequent death . . . , data were gathered on a variety of aspects of parent-child communication about the illness and subsequent loss / findings regarding patterns of communications are presented with special attention to how these vary by the gender and age of the child and the gender of the well/surviving parent / [Ss were children of cancer patients with advanced disease and a poor prognosis, and were age 6-16 yrs at the time of accrual] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |
