[Psychosocial Emergency Care After the Death of a Parent: Guidelines for Dealing with Affected Children].

Abstract

Psychosocial Emergency Care After the Death of a Parent: Guidelines for Dealing with Affected Children Does psychosocial emergency care after parental death affect children s mental health? Or do affected children consider psychosocial emergency care useful at all? And what do children really want in this situation? Against the background of these questions, data were collected both qualitatively and quantitatively from a sample of 35 affected children and adolescents. The results show no mental health differences between groups (children with PSNV, n = 11 and children without PSNV, n = 24). Nevertheless, affected children appear to evaluate psychosocial emergency care after parental death positively. The derived guidelines therefore represent a further step towards psychosocial emergency care adapted to the needs of children and can therefore serve as orientation for practice.