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Losing a parent to suicide: Posttraumatic stress, sense of coherence and family functioning in children, adolescents and remaining parents before attending a grief support program
Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Social Work, Criminology and Public Health Sciences, Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8448-7917
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2025 (English)In: Death Studies, ISSN 0748-1187, E-ISSN 1091-7683, Vol. 49, no 7, p. 841-849Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Parental suicide in childhood increases the risk of mental ill-health, substance use and premature mortality, particularly through suicide. Postvention supports tailored to the well-being and functioning of suicide-bereaved children and their remaining parents are thus of critical importance to counteract negative development. This explorative cross-sectional study seeks clinically relevant knowledge by investigating posttraumatic stress (PTS), sense of coherence (SOC) and family functioning among children (n = 22), adolescents (n = 18) and parents (n = 40) before their attendance at a family-based grief support program. The results demonstrate critical health outcomes for children and parents, and in particular for adolescents. Clinically relevant symptoms of PTS were found in 36% of children, 65% of adolescents, and 37% of parents. All groups showed lower SOC than the norm. Adolescents reported dysfunctional family functioning for the dimensions Communication and Affective Responsiveness. Psychoeducational and trauma-informed support is recommended where family communication and meaning construction of suicide is given special attention.

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Taylor & Francis , 2025. Vol. 49, no 7, p. 841-849
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Sociology
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Health-Promoting Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-44490DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2024.2361759ISI: 001252969600001PubMedID: 38843028Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85195299939OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-44490DiVA, id: diva2:1867046
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2018/01052Available from: 2024-06-10 Created: 2024-06-10 Last updated: 2025-10-02Bibliographically approved

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