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Grieving in community: Accompanying bereaved parents.
Marnie Venema1, Derrick Klaassen1, Janelle Kwee1
1Department of Counselling Psychology, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Journal of Community Psychology
|March 25, 2023
Summary
Communities can support bereaved parents through shared emotional and practical aid, vulnerability, complex grief, and child remembrance. This relational grieving research offers community-level insights into bereavement support.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Bereavement Studies
Background:
- Child death profoundly impacts parents and their community.
- Existing research often focuses on individual grief, neglecting community dynamics.
- Understanding community's role in supporting bereaved families is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore relational grieving within a community context.
- To examine how community members support bereaved parents after a child's death.
- To identify shared grieving actions and intentions.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative action-project method used for interviews.
- In-depth interviews with three bereaved parent couples and their community members.
- Top-down and bottom-up data analysis for shared intentions.
Main Results:
- Thick descriptions of community-level relational grieving.
- Four key assertions emerged: offering support, honoring vulnerability, holding complexity, and fostering remembrance.
- Demonstrated community's capacity for shared grieving actions.
Conclusions:
- Communities play a vital role in supporting bereaved parents through relational grieving.
- Findings contribute novel insights to relational bereavement research.
- Highlights theoretical, empirical, and clinical implications for community support.
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