Bereaved children

Children who have lost a parent, sibling or other loved one lack the experience that adults can have to cope with their own pain and emotions. Children express their grief in their ways of behaving. They act out their feelings and emotions. We cannot always know what they are thinking or feeling. Withdrawal, aggressiveness, panic, anxiety, anger, guilt, fear, regression and symptoms of bodily distress can all be signs of grief.

1. Marginalized young people

1. Single parent children
2. Pet loss

1. Unknown relatives
2. Non-parental custody of children
3. Child-headed families
4. Abandoned children

1. Vulnerability of children during armed conflict
2. Parenticide
3. Maternal mortality
4. Human death
5. Decreasing number of adoptive parents
6. Death of a spouse

1. Uninvolved working parents
2. Unfulfilled grandparents
3. Inadequate adult role models for youth
4. Forced separation of parents and children

1. Consoling the bereaved

1. Prematurity
2. Loss
3. Death
4. Bereavement