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Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) are precursors to future problems in a child’s life (CDC, 2013). One traumatic experience that can be particularly damaging to a child is the death of a loved one by suicide, especially a parent. Grief is already such a complex emotion to experience, to then add in that the loved one chose to die, would make the child’s loss confusing, angering, guilt-inducing, and isolating (CDC, 2013). When a child loses his/her mother or father in any instance, the experience can be emotionally overwhelming and exhausting. The child may isolate themselves and withdraw from their friends and hobbies. When a child’s parent dies by suicide, though, it then increases the child’s likelihood for suicide three times – compared to living parents (Koplewicz, n.d.). Individuals who experience the loss of a parent to suicide from such a young age are suddenly faced with many complex and difficult emotions and left with several unanswered questions. Treatment for any traumatic childhood situation is challenging. It is crucial that the professionals tasked with children heal from such experiences are knowledgeable about how to give care in a way that is most healing and helpful to the child (Mash & Wolfe, 2018). When navigating the loss of a parent to suicide, children are often left feeling angry, hurt, confused, lonely, and rejected. This is when a counselor would engage in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). To help the child move through the stages of grief, the child’s counselor should teach him/her skills to cope with their loss, keep themselves safe, and express and communicate their emotions to those helping them through treatment (Koplewicz, n.d.). The child’s counselor should also help them learn to reconnect with remaining members of their family and community. References
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study . https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/ Koplewicz, H. (n.d.) Coping with a parent's suicide. Child Mind Institute . https://childmind.org/article/coping-with-a-parents-suicide/ Mash, E. J., Wolfe, D. A. (2018). Abnormal Child Psychology, 7th Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf 10.3.3]. Retrieved from vbk://9781337670104
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