”No, you don’t know how we feel”: Groupwork with children facing parental loss
- Författare
- Chowns, G.
- Titel
- ”No, you don’t know how we feel”: Groupwork with children facing parental loss
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
- Tidskrift
- Groupwork
- Volym
- 18
- Häfte
- 1
- Sidor
- 14-37
- Sammanfattning
Groupwork with bereaved children has become increasingly common. However, working with children anticipating potential bereavement has received much less attention. Similarly, research within this area in palliative care has been notable for two things - its paucity and its failure to address the perspective of the children themselves. The author, a palliative care social worker, turned to the action research paradigm for an approach that would more effectively engage with and illuminate these children's experiences, and undertook a collaborative inquiry - where the research is conducted with rather than for, on, or about the participants - with nine children aged from seven to fifteen. Collaborative inquiry raises - and challenges - many key issues in both research and groupwork, such as voice, power and identity, ethics and competence. This article addresses a number of these issues, with a particular focus on identity.