Child and the death
Le Deuil (d’un proche) chez l’enfant
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Enseignant : Mr F. AVESQUE
Année universitaire 2010/2011
SOMMAIRE
INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------------------------p.1
I- The Bereavement---------------------------------------------------p.2
II- Stages in the mourning for the child and consequences----p.5
III- Ways to help---------------------------------------------------------p.7
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
INTRODUCTION
If certain children escape this cruel fate that is the death of one of theirs, there are others than fate do not save. Preceded sometimes by a serious illness or arisen brutally following an accident or following a suicide, the death of a father, a mother, a brother, a sister or a grandparent, mades relative violence. It upsets the life of those who survive.
The death of a person loved during the childhood provoke a real trauma. The emotional drama which represents this disappearance leaves long-lasting and varied tracks which cannot nearly show their effects to more or less long term, both from the point of view of the physical health and of the psychic balance and at the level of the social integration of the subject.
We underestimated for a long time the reality of the mourning for the child. The mourning for the adult was during long decades little taken into account, all the more that of the child which was little studied, we doubted even his psychological reality. It was partially connected to the fact that the distress of the child is a little bit mysterious, because he has no words to communicate felt sound, his suffering. And when we have no words, we try to act them, to cross the words in acts, and the adult does not still succeed in decoding them. The expression of the mourning for the child shows itself differently from that of the adult, because the process of the mourning, itself evolutionary in the time, arises on