Currier Joseph M, Holland Jason M, Neimeyer Robert A
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-6400, USA.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2007 Apr-Jun;36(2):253-9. doi: 10.1080/15374410701279669.
Grief therapies with children are becoming increasingly popular in the mental health community. Nonetheless, questions persist about how well these treatments actually help with children's adjustment to the death of a loved one. This study used meta-analytic techniques to evaluate the general effectiveness of bereavement interventions with children. A thorough quantitative review of the existing controlled outcome literature (n = 13) yielded a conclusion akin to earlier reviews of grief therapy with adults, namely that the child grief interventions do not appear to generate the positive outcomes of other professional psychotherapeutic interventions. However, studies that intervened in a time-sensitive manner and those that implemented specific selection criteria produced better outcomes than investigations that did not attend to these factors.
在心理健康领域，针对儿童的悲伤疗法越来越受欢迎。尽管如此，这些疗法在帮助儿童适应亲人离世方面的实际效果究竟如何，仍然存在疑问。本研究采用元分析技术来评估针对儿童的丧亲干预措施的总体有效性。对现有对照结果文献（n = 13）进行全面的定量综述后得出的结论，与早期针对成人悲伤疗法的综述类似，即儿童悲伤干预措施似乎并未产生与其他专业心理治疗干预措施相同的积极效果。然而，那些采用了时间敏感干预方式以及实施了特定选择标准的研究，比未考虑这些因素的研究产生了更好的结果。
