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- Title
NARRATING TIME: MINIMISING THE DISRUPTION AND DISCONTINUITIES OF CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF DEATH.
- Authors
Rolls, Liz
- Abstract
Childhood parental bereavement is a terrible event which has the potential to fracture their storyline, depriving them of the capacity to make meaning of this event-a component considered essential for adaptation to loss. This article is an exploration of how time is used by one mother in order to minimise disruption and discontinuity, and to do "meaning-making" in the face of the sudden, impending death of her children's father following a road traffic accident. Claire describes this event, unfolding in the present, in which she uses the future to help her act in the present, on events from the past which are still "live" in her children's lives. In holding their future "in mind" in the ever unfolding present of the events she describes, her story is an example of the oscillating nature of time and how it is used to find, create, and reconstruct coherence and meaning.
- Subjects
DEATH &; psychology; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); BEREAVEMENT; CHILD psychology; INTERVIEWING; LOSS (Psychology); SOUND recordings; PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses; NARRATIVES; CHILDREN
- Publication
Illness, Crisis & Loss, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 4, p323
- ISSN
1054-1373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2190/IL.18.4.c