The impact of parental suicide on child and adolescent offspring

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-151

  Kuramoto, S Janet ^a   Brent, David A ^b   Wilcox, Holly C ^c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PARENTAL SUICIDE; PROGENY; SUICIDE; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CONFLICT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; SUICIDE; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649340953     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2009.39.2.137     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. ▶ AGERBO, E., NORDENTOFT, M., & MORTENSEN, P. B. (2002). Familial, psychiatric, and socioeconomic risk factors for suicide in young people: Nested case-control study. BMJ, 325, 74.
2. AVRAMI, S. (2005). "I wish he had died in the war": Suicide survivors - The Israeli case. Omega, 51, 65-75. (Pubitemid 41804724)
3. BAILLEY, S. E., KRAL, M. J., & DUNHAM, K. (1999). Survivors of suicide do grieve differently: Empirical support for a common sense proposition. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 29, 256-271. (Pubitemid 29473506)
4. BREIER, A., KELSOE JR., J. R., KIRWIN, P. D., BELLER, S. A., WOLKOWITZ, O. M., & PICKAR, D. (1988). Early parental loss and development of adult psychopathology. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 987-993. (Pubitemid 18261760)
5. BRENT, D. A., & MANN, J. J. (2005). Family genetic studies, suicide, and suicidal behavior. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 133, 13-24. (Pubitemid 40194125)
6. ▶ BRENT, D. A., OQUENDO, M., BIRMAHER, B., GREENHILL, L., KOLKO, D., STANLEY, B., ET AL. (2002). Familial pathways to early-onset suicide attempt. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 801-807.
7. ▶ BRENT, D. A., PERPER, J. A., MORITZ, G., & LIOTUS, L. (1993). Psychiatric impact of the loss of an adolescent sibling to suicide. Journal of Affective Disorders, 28, 249-256.
8. ▶ BROWN, A. C., SANDLER, I. N., TEIN, J. -Y., LIU, X., & HAINE, R. A. (2007). Implications of parental suicide and violent death for promotion of resilience of parentally-bereaved children. Death Studies, 31, 301-335.
9. ▶ CAIN, A. C. (2002). Children of suicide: The telling and the knowing. Psychiatry, 65, 124-136.
10. CAIN, A. C., & FAST, I. (1966). Children's disturbed reactions to parent suicide. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 36, 873-880.
11. ▶ CEREL, J., FRISTAD, M. A., WELLER, E. B., & WELLER, R. A. (1999). Suicide-bereaved children and adolescents: A controlled longitudinal examination. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 672-679.
12. ▶ CEREL, J., FRISTAD, M. A., WELLER, E. B., & WELLER, R. A. (2000). Suicide-bereaved children and adolescents: II. Parental and family functioning. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 437-444.
13. ▶ CEREL, J., FRISTAD, M. A., VERDUCCI, J., WELLER, R. A., & WELLER, E. B. (2006). Childhood bereavement: Psychopathology in the 2 years postparental death. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 681-690.
14. ▶ CVINAR, J. G. (2005). Do suicide survivors suffer social stigma: A review of the literature. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 41, 14-21.
15. GARMEZY, N., & RUTTER, M. (1983). Stress, coping, and development in children. New York: McGraw-Hill.
16. ▶ GOODWIN, R. D., BEAUTRAIS, A. L., & FERGUSSON, D. M. (2004). Familial transmission of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: Evidence from a general population sample. Psychiatric Research, 126, 159-165.
17. ▶ GROSSMAN, J. A., CLARK, D. C., GROSS, D., HALSTEAD, L., & PENNINGTON, J. (1995). Child bereavement after paternal suicide. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 8, 5-17.
18. HARRIS, T., BROWN, G. W., & BIFULCO, A. (1986). Loss of parent in childhood and adult psychiatric disorder: The role of lack of adequate parental care. Psychological Medicine, 16, 641-659. (Pubitemid 17189463)
19. ▶ HAWTON, K., HAW, C., HOUSTON, K., & TOWNSEND, E. (2002). Family history of suicidal behaviour: Prevalence and significance in deliberate self-harm patients. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 106, 387-393.
20. ▶ HAWTON, K., HOUSTON, K., HAW, C., TOWSEND, E., & HARRISS, L. (2003). Comorbidity of axis I and axis II disorders in patients who attempted suicide. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1494-1500.
21. ▶ JORDAN, J. R. (2001). Is suicide bereavement different? A reassessment of the literature. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 31, 91-102.
22. ▶ JORDAN, J. R., & MCMENAMY, J. (2004). Interventions for suicide survivors: A review of the literature. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 34, 337-349.
23. KELLAM, S. G., BRANCH, J. D., AGRAWAL, K. C., & ENSMINGER, M. E. 1975. Mental health and going to school: The Woodlawn program of assessment, early intervention, and evaluation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
24. ▶ KENDLER, K. S., SHETH, K., GARDNER, C. O., & PRESCOTT, C. A. (2002). Childhood parental loss and risk for first-onset of major depression and alcohol dependence: The time-decay of risk and sex differences. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1187-1194.
25. KUNG, H. S., HOYERT, D. L., XU, J., & MURPHY, S. L. (2008). Deaths: Final data for 2005. National Vital Statistics Reports, 56(10). Retrieved March 3, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56-10.pdf.
26. ▶ KWOK, O. M., HAINE, R. A., SANDLER, I. N., AYERS, T. S., WOLCHIK, S. A., & TEIN, J. Y. (2005). Positive parenting as a mediator of the relations between parental psychological distress and mental health problems of parentally bereaved children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 260-271.
27. MANN, J. J., WATERNAUX, C., HAAS, G. L., & MALONE, K. M. (1999). Toward a clinical model of suicidal behavior in psychiatric patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 181-189. (Pubitemid 29077107)
28. ▶ MCLEOD, J. D. (1991). Childhood parental loss and adult depression. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 32, 205-220.
29. MELHEM, N. M., WALKER, M., MORITZ, G., & BRENT, D. A. (2008). Antecedents and sequelae of sudden parental death in offspring and surviving caregivers. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. (Pubitemid 351656555)
30. MCINTOSH, J. L. (2008). U.S.A. Suicide: 2005 official final data. American Association of Suicidology. Retrieved March 3, 2008, from www.suicidology.org.
31. ▶ MITCHELL, A. M., WESNER, S., BROWNSON, L., DYSART-GALE, D., GARAND, L., & HAVILL, A. (2006). Effective communication with bereaved child survivors of suicide. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 19, 130-136.
32. ▶ MITCHELL, A. M., KIM, Y., PRIGERSON, H. G., & MORTIMER, M. K. (2005). Complicated grief and suicidal ideation in adult survivors of suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 35, 498-506.
33. ▶ MITCHELL, A. M., WESNER, S., GARAND, L., GALE, D. D., HAVILL, A., & BROWNSON, L. (2007). A support group intervention for children bereaved by parental suicide. Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 20(1), 3-13.
34. ▶ PFEFFER, C. R., KARUS, D., SIEGEL, K., & JIANG, H. (2000). Child survivors of parental death from cancer or suicide: Depressive and behavioral outcomes. Psychooncology, 9, 1-10.
35. ▶ PFEFFER, C. R., MARTINS, P., MANN, J., SUNKENBERG, M., ICE, A., DAMORE JR., J. P., ET AL. (1997). Child survivors of suicide: Psychosocial characteristics. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 65-74.
36. ▶ QIN, P., AGERBO, E., & MORTENSEN, P. B. (2002). Suicide risk in relation to family history of completed suicide and psychiatric disorders: A nested case-control study based on longitudinal registers. Lancet, 360, 1126-1130.
37. ROY, A. (1983). Family history of suicide. Archive of General Psychiatry, 40, 971-974.
38. ▶ ROY, A. (2004). Family history of suicidal behavior and earlier onset of suicidal behavior. Psychiatry Research, 129, 217.
39. ▶ RUNESON, B., & ASBERG, M. (2003). Family history of suicide among suicide victims. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1525-1526.
40. ▶ SANDLER, I. N., AYERS, T. S., WOLCHIK, S. A., TEIN, J. -Y., KWOK, O. -M., HAINE, R. A., ET AL. (2003). The family bereavement program: Efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally-bereaved children and adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 587-600.
41. SCHULSINGER, F., KETY, S. S., ROSENTHAL, D., & WENDER, P. H. (1979). A family study of suicide. In M. Schou & B. Stromgren (Eds.), Origin, prevention and treatment of affective disorders (pp. 277-287). London: Academic Press.
42. ▶ SETHI, S. & BHARGAVA, S. C. (2003). Child and adolescent survivors of suicide. Crisis, 24, 4-6.
43. ▶ SHEPHERD, D. M., & BARRACLOUGH, B. M. (1976). The aftermath of parental suicide for children. British Journal of Psychiatry, 129, 267-276.
44. TENNANT, C. (1988). Parental loss in childhood: Its effect in adult life. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 1045-1050. (Pubitemid 18261769)
45. ▶ TSUCHIYA, K. J., AGERBO, E., & MORTENSEN, P. B. (2005). Parental death and bipolar disorder: A robust association was found in early maternal suicide. Journal of Affective Disorders, 86, 151-159.
46. ▶ WEISSMAN, M. M., WICKRAMARATNE, P., NOMURA, Y., WARNER, V., VERDELI, H., PILOWSKY, D. J., ET AL. (2005). Families at high and low risk for depression: A 3-generation study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 29-36.
47. WENDER, P. H., KETY, S. S., ROSENTHAL, D., SCHULSINGER, F., ORTMANN, J., & LUNDE, I. (1986). Psychiatric disorders in the biological and adoptive families of adopted individuals with affective disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 43, 923-929. (Pubitemid 17168411)