Chachar Aisha Sanober, Younus Sana, Ali Wamiq
Synapse, Pakistan Neuroscience Institute, Karachi, Pakistan.
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Sep 29;12:654584. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.654584. eCollection 2021.
COVID-19 Pandemic has influenced death-related attitudes and understanding during the childhood development leading to a life-long impact. Factors like pandemic-related movement restrictions, school closures, and parents' stay-at-home have exposed children to the phenomenon of grief and death. In that case, children anticipate adverse outcomes and fear while they struggle with unanswered questions. Children may not have coping skills needed to manage their grief in constructive ways to identify, normalize, and express their responses to the loss in their lives. Naming and validating these responses as distinctive aspects of grief process and providing safe space to express their feelings are essential components of a child's coping with loss and grief. This is crucial to consider, as different children react to and are influenced by their environments differently. This article aims to explore the developmental understanding of the process of death and grief by applying the conceptual framework of Bronfenbrenner's theory. Understanding mutual interaction between a child and various ecological systems determines how children perceive death and process grief can facilitate effective communication that has significant implications.
新冠疫情在儿童成长过程中影响了与死亡相关的态度和认知，产生了终身影响。与疫情相关的行动限制、学校关闭以及父母居家等因素，使儿童接触到悲伤和死亡现象。在这种情况下，儿童在努力应对未解决的问题时，会预期到不良后果并感到恐惧。儿童可能缺乏以建设性方式处理悲伤所需的应对技能，无法识别、正常化并表达他们对生活中失去的反应。将这些反应视为悲伤过程的独特方面并加以命名和确认，为他们提供表达感受的安全空间，是儿童应对失去和悲伤的重要组成部分。这一点至关重要，因为不同的儿童对环境的反应和受环境的影响各不相同。本文旨在通过应用布朗芬布伦纳理论的概念框架，探讨对死亡和悲伤过程的发展性理解。理解儿童与各种生态系统之间的相互作用，确定儿童如何看待死亡以及处理悲伤，有助于促进有效沟通，这具有重大意义。
