Childhood bereavement
- 15 June 1996
- Vol. 312 (7045), 1496
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7045.1496
Abstract
Bereaved adults caring for young children often deny them the opportunity to understand what has happened to a parent or sibling who has died, in the mistaken belief that the children are best protected from this knowledge or cannot understand it. Yet studies have shown that even …Keywords
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