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DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2023.2265671
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Loss and grief; child and adolescents; coping; qualitative; suicide
Studies on suicide-bereaved parents are limited in South European and Eastern Mediterranean countries. This study explored the experiences of Greek-speaking suicide-bereaved parents in Cyprus, focusing on their interpretations of their child's suicide, its aftereffects and their coping strategies. The findings revealed that participants had different interpretations of their child's suicide and employed various coping strategies to manage the distress and negative self-judgement associated with it. There is a need for further exploration to improve intervention planning and provide support for mourning parents.
Purpose Studies on suicide-bereaved parents are scarce in South European and Eastern Mediterranean countries. We explored the experiences of Greek-speaking suicide-bereaved parents in Cyprus, with emphasis on the interpretations of their child's suicide, its aftereffects and their coping strategies.Methods A qualitative methodology based on inductive content analysis of the interviews of ten mothers and two fathers was applied.Results The participants described their efforts to make sense of the senseless, reporting numerous interpretations of their child's suicide. Some participants had achieved to move on by trying to keep the remaining family together. Others felt detached from their social network. The different coping strategies and support systems described, reflected participants' efforts to escape from obsessive, enduring and deeply traumatizing thoughts about their child's suicide. The analysis mirrored participants' ultimate desire to find existential relief and serenity through the management of distressing reminders of their child's suicide, and alleviate the burden of their own negative self-judgement and the criticism of others. They sought physical and emotional comfort in the inner realm of their psyche, through spiritual and psychological coping processes.Conclusion Further exploration is suggested about intervention planning aiming to strengthen effective coping strategies and external supportive resources in mourning parents.
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