Date of Conferral
2023
Degree
Ph.D.
School
Social Work
Advisor
Jaegoo J. Lee
Abstract
The death of a loved one can be an extremely painful process that can have detrimental consequences on the emotional well-being of individuals if they don’t receive grief intervention support. When it specifically comes to the emotional eudaemonia of children and teens experiencing the death of a loved one, research is limited on empirical-based bereavement intervention support to enhance their coping skills. Utilizing the theoretical framework of resilience theory, the purpose of this quantitative secondary research study was to evaluate the Sutter Sacramento Children’s Bereavement Art Group (CBAG) ten- week intervention for children and teens ages 5-12. The first question focused on the determination of the significant effect of the CBAG intervention to grief behavioral symptoms in participants ages 5-12. The second question centered on one subsystem of the research sample and addressed the question of if the effects of CBAG’s resilience model framework on coping skills on grief behavioral symptoms differed by gender in participants ages 5-12. This research study utilized secondary research with existing data collected from the CBAG program’s bibliotheca. The data were analyzed by a two-tailed signed Wilcoxon rank test. Moreover, the overall findings from this research determined if program participants from the CBAG program coping skills were influenced after bereavement intervention support and participant grief behavioral symptoms declined. The positive implications of social change occurring from this research study can provide further opportunities to promote and further advocacy and intervention services for bereaved children and teens.
Recommended Citation
Terry, Ada Terry DeNone, "An Evaluation of a Community-Based Children’s Bereavement Group Using a Resilience Model" (2023). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 14548.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/14548
