Children's understanding of death in relation to child suicidality and homicidality
Children's understanding of death in relation to child suicidality and homicidality
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DOI：
10.1016/s0272-7358(96)00044-x
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发表时间：
1997-01-01
影响因子：
12.8
通讯作者：
Orvaschel, H
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作者：
CuddyCasey, M;Orvaschel, H
这篇综述考察了儿童对死亡的理解，以及这种理解可能如何与儿童自杀和凶杀发生率的增加有关。据报道，影响儿童获得死亡概念的因素有几个。据报道，最常见的影响因素包括儿童的年龄、认知发展和死亡风险；宗教和文化似乎起到的作用较小。我们所知道的关于儿童如何以及何时乞求理解死亡的大部分知识都来自于对健康儿童的研究。虽然不那么可靠，但从患有慢性身体疾病的儿童和自杀儿童获得的数据表明，对死亡的概念存在一些扭曲和不成熟的概念。这些扭曲可能确实会让死亡对一些有自杀倾向的孩子来说更具吸引力，而不是那么持久。尽管有这些挑衅性的发现，但没有对杀人犯儿童进行过类似的调查。讨论了这些数据对未来研究和潜在干预的影响。(C)1997年爱思唯尔科学有限公司。
This review examines children's understanding of death and how such understanding may be related to the increasing incidence of child suicidality and homicidality. Several factors have been reported to influence children's acquisition of the concepts of death. Those most often reported involved include children's age, cognitive development, and exposure to death; religion and culture appear to play a more minimal role. Most of what we know about how and when children beg-in to understand death is derived from research with healthy children. Although less robust, the data available from chronically physically ill children and suicidal children indicate some distortions in and less mature concepts of death. These distortions may indeed make death appear more attractive and less permanent to some suicidal children. Despite these provocative findings, no similar investigations have been conducted with homicidal children. Implications of these data for future research and potential intervention are discussed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.