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Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Psychology
  • Thanatology
  • Family Communication

Background:

  • Understanding how parents disclose a parent's death to adolescents is crucial for supporting grieving children.
  • Existing research highlights the importance of communication during a parent's terminal illness but less is known about post-death disclosure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explicate the various ways parents communicate a parent's death to their adolescent children.
  • To identify distinct communication patterns used by surviving parents during bereavement disclosure.

Main Methods:

  • Descriptive qualitative design utilizing semistructured individual interviews.
  • Thematic content analysis was applied to interview data from nine adolescents and six surviving parents.
  • Participants were recruited from a hospice setting in northeastern Ohio.

Main Results:

  • Surviving parents employ three primary disclosure styles: measured telling, matter-of-fact telling, and inconsistent telling.
  • These communication strategies are employed with the intention of informing adolescents and alleviating their distress.
  • Findings align with previous research on parental disclosure during a parent's life-threatening illness and imminent death.

Conclusions:

  • A framework describing the disclosure process of a parent's illness, imminent death, and death to adolescents is supported.
  • Pre-death communication patterns can foreshadow post-death disclosure methods.
  • Findings can inform healthcare professionals in developing tailored interventions to assist families with bereavement communication.