Alisic Eva, Krishna Revathi N, Groot Arend, Frederick John W
Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Building 70, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Sangath, Alto-Porvorim, Goa, India.
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2015 Dec;18(4):328-45. doi: 10.1007/s10567-015-0193-7.
When one parent kills the other, children are confronted with multiple losses, involving their attachment figures and their direct living environment. In these complex situations, potentially drastic decisions are made, for example, regarding new living arrangements and contact with the perpetrating parent. We aimed to synthesize the empirical literature on children's mental health and well-being after parental intimate partner homicide. A systematic search identified 17 relevant peer-reviewed articles (13 independent samples). We recorded the theoretical background, methodology, and sample characteristics of the studies, and extracted all child outcomes as well as potential risk and protective factors. Children's outcomes varied widely and included psychological, social, physical, and academic consequences (e.g., post-traumatic stress, attachment difficulties, weight and appetite changes, and drops in school grades). Potential risk and protective factors for children's outcomes included 10 categories of pre-, peri-, and post-homicide characteristics such as cultural background of the family, whether the child witnessed the homicide, and the level of conflict between the families of the victim and the perpetrator. We integrated the findings into a conceptual model of risk factors to direct clinical reflection and further research.
当一方父母杀害另一方时，孩子们会面临多重损失，包括他们的依恋对象和直接生活环境。在这些复杂情况下，会做出一些可能非常重大的决定，例如关于新的生活安排以及与行凶父母的接触等。我们旨在综合有关父母亲密伴侣杀人案后儿童心理健康和幸福状况的实证文献。一项系统检索确定了17篇相关的同行评审文章（13个独立样本）。我们记录了这些研究的理论背景、方法和样本特征，并提取了所有儿童的结果以及潜在的风险和保护因素。儿童的结果差异很大，包括心理、社会、身体和学业方面的影响（例如创伤后应激、依恋困难、体重和食欲变化以及学业成绩下降）。儿童结果的潜在风险和保护因素包括杀人案前、案中和案后的10类特征，如家庭文化背景、孩子是否目睹杀人案以及受害者和行凶者家庭之间的冲突程度。我们将研究结果整合到一个风险因素概念模型中，以指导临床思考和进一步研究。
