NCT01573689

Bereaving, But Not Alone : the Development and Actualization of a Mutual Aid Group for Children Who Have Lost a Parent.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Montréal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The methodology of this clinical trial is based on the realisation of a group intervention with children who lost a parent. Interviews preintervention and postintervention with participants will be done as well. The purpose of this study is to answer the following question: "What are the benefits for children who are in the process of bereaving a parent to participate in a group work intervention based on the mutual aid model ?". The aim of the research is to explore the benefits for grieving children to participate in an group work intervention based on the mutual aid model. To do so, the research has three distinct objectives : 1) to develop and apply a program of group work interventions for grieving children based on the mutual aid model ; 2) to explore the extent to which participation in the group facilitates changes in the children's discourse about death and the loss of their parents, and 3) to examine, from the children's own perceptive, the possible impact that their participation in the group have on their experience of bereavement.

Conditions

• Mourning,
• Grief,
• Bereavement.

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group intervention based on mutual aid.	Development of a mutual aid group and his actualization on children between nine and twelve years old who had lost one of their parents.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2012-04-09
• Last updated: 2013-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada