Parent and adolescent responses to non-terminal parental cancer: retrospective multi-case pilot study
- Författare
- Davey, M., Askew, J., och Godette, K.
- Titel
- Parent and adolescent responses to non-terminal parental cancer: retrospective multi-case pilot study
- Utgivningsår
- 2003
- Tidskrift
- Family, Systems and Health
- Volym
- 21
- Häfte
- 3
- Sidor
- 245-258
- Sammanfattning
This article presents the results of a retrospective multiple-case pilot study (6 families: 4 Caucasian and 2 African American) designed to uncover how parents and their adolescent children (ages 11-18) were affected by non-terminal parental cancer, and how they adjusted to and coped with cancer. Drawing from phenomenology and the collective case study approach, findings suggest that parents were often unaware of the stress and overwhelming feelings of sadness and fear their adolescent children were experiencing. Often the adolescent children tried to protect their parents by not sharing their feelings openly with them; this was particularly so for the oldest offspring in the family. These findings provide important insights for healthcare professionals in serving this often-neglected population of families more effectively.