5/24/2023 0 Comments Grieve crypterHowever, few developmentally appropriate interventions to support grieving children are available to date. We shall first discuss what makes infantile mourning an unthinkable reality we shall then discuss the contextual plurality of these mourning processes according to the age period in which they happen finally, from elements noted in our clinical practice we shall consider, in the light of current publication on this subject, the elements which appear to be at the source of over-victimization of child grief and those who allow the strengthening of resilience in individual and collective contexts.Ĭhildhood bereavement is common, and is associated with elevated symptoms of grief with distress and impairment. This experience showed us how essential it is to know the specific details of clinical demonstrations of grief by age, because too often the suffering of bereaved children is not understood for what it is. Our clinical practice leads us to intervene with children at different times during these periods, whether at the moment of the death announcement or their care in the days and months that follow the confrontation with death, but also years later when, now adults, their infantile grief is reactivated by another traumatic event. This misunderstanding of the clinical sense of mourning in the child and its age-specificities has consequence for their future witness the psychic suffering of adults who, as children grieving, met with denial from those around them. The fact that a child, especially a very young one, can suffer psychically from the loss of a parent is difficult to admit, and many grieving children find themselves alone and facing an indifferent adult's world: the adults convinced that children can't be affected as they are because they doesn't express their pain in the same way. ![]() Death is a part of life but remains difficult to think about, especially when it affects a child and when it is then a question of the psychic process precipitating the definitive loss, which is grief.
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