Adolescents Coping with Non-Terminal Parental Cancer
By Maureen Davey, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., and Adam Davey, Ph.D.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005, Pages 7-9, Item# A124-DAVEY
Send this page to a friendThis article presents the results of a retrospective multiple-case pilot study (6 families; 4 Caucasian and 2 African-American) designed to uncover how parents and their adolescent children (ages 11-18) were affected by non-terminal parental cancer, and how they adjusted to and coped with cancer.
Drawing from phenomenology and the collective case study approach, findings suggest that parents were often unaware of the stress and overwhelming feelings of sadness and fear their adolescent children were experiencing.
Often the adolescent children tried to protect their parents by not sharing their feelings openly with them, this was particularly so for the oldest offspring in the family.
These findings provide important insights for health care professionals in serving this often neglected population of families more effectively.
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Adolescents With Ill Parents
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005
It has been estimated that as many as 5-15% of children and adolescents have parents who suffer from a significant medical condition. Living with an ill parent can affect youth in a number of ways, ranging from ill parents' lack of energy, to increased expectations for the adolescents, to loss of wages and famancial crisis. This issue takes a look at the lives of youth with ill parents.
This issue also featured these articles:
- Adolescent Reactions to Parental Cancer: Strategies for Providing Support, Pages 10-12
- Adolescents Coping with Non-Terminal Parental Cancer, Pages 7-9
- HIV-Affected Adolescents: Vulnerabilities and Protective Factors, Pages 13-16
- Parental Illness and Adolescent Development, Pages 3-6
- Traumatic Stress in Adolescents Anticipating Parental Death, Pages 17-20
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