Overview
- Based on original research into unexpected child death from both personal and professional accounts
- Utilises a unique psychosocial approach and methodology which will contribute to the psychosocial community’s understanding of group data analysis
- Draws together the work of leading psychosocial theorists to interrogate the topic of individual and societal responses to child death and death more generally
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Psychosocial
- Social Work
- Child Death
- Grieving
- Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method
- Psychosocial methodology
- Group Data Analysis
- Emotional Politics
- Klein and the ‘space that connects’
- The Biographic Narrative Interpretive method
- Sudden, Unexpected Death in Infancy’
- ‘Rapid Response’ or Joint Agency Approach (JAA)
- ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’
About this book
This book combines autobiography and innovative narrative research to create an original psychosocial perspective on the often taboo subject of sudden, unexpected child death. Beginning with the author’s own experience, the book investigates manifold aspects of sudden, unexpected child death, including the professional rapid response; contemporary cultural reactions to death; theories of grieving; child death inquiries and popular media reporting.
At the heart of the book are intimate personal stories, drawn from unprecedented psychosocial research on this topic, which combine to create a unique record of parent’s experiences following the sudden and unexpected death of a child. Additionally, the book offers original guidance on the Biographic Narrative Interpretive methodology, which extends knowledge of group data analysis.
The book will be of great methodological interest to the psychosocial community, as well as to health and social care professionals and lay readers interested in both sudden, unexpected child death and the wider field.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Denise Turner is a former social worker and currently works within academia. Her research interests include autobiographical research methods, bereavement and the openings created by loss, change and transition. This book is based on her personal experience of sudden, unexpected child death and builds on PhD research, completed at the University of Sussex, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on the Experience of Sudden, Unexpected Child Death
Book Subtitle: The Very Worst Thing?
Authors: Denise Turner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66017-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66016-5Published: 13 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88154-6Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66017-2Published: 27 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Psychotherapy, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Children, Youth and Family Policy