Forgotten grievers: What services can learn from families bereaved by youth-violence-related homicide.

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Death Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI:10.1080/07481187.2026.2705379

Sophie Wallace-Hanlon, Karen Green Stewart, Nneka Okafor-Sholaja, Sherry Peck, Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, Elizabeth Simes

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Abstract

Serious youth violence is a significant social concern in the United Kingdom. This qualitative study explores the reported recommendations for the offer of care for families and members of the wider social network who have been bereaved by youth-violence-related homicide. This UK-based study used naturalistic, semi-structured interviews with 24 participants, including immediate and extended family and one peer. The study was initiated and co-produced with an expert by experience. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify recommendations for an improved support model. Our results coalesced around four main findings: (1) Need for timely support, (2) Importance of responsive, flexibly tailored help, (3) Importance of accessibility, (4) Specific ideas around the format and structure of help. There was an emphasis on support being more joined up, potentially through the establishment of an integrated keyworker role. Participants described the wish for warm, empathic, and culturally sensitive support provided by workers with specialist training.

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被遗忘的悲伤者：服务机构可以从与青少年暴力有关的凶杀案中失去亲人的家庭中学到什么？

在英国，严重的青少年暴力是一个重要的社会问题。本定性研究探讨了报告中关于为因与青少年暴力有关的杀人案而失去亲人的家庭和更广泛的社会网络成员提供照顾的建议。这项基于英国的研究采用了自然的、半结构化的采访方式，采访了24名参与者，包括直系亲属、大家庭成员和一位同龄人。这项研究是由一位经验丰富的专家发起和共同完成的。反身性专题分析用于确定改进支助模式的建议。我们的研究结果结合了四个主要发现：(1)对及时支持的需求；(2)响应性、灵活定制的帮助的重要性；(3)可访问性的重要性；(4)关于帮助格式和结构的具体想法。有一个重点是通过建立一个综合的关键工作者角色，使支持更加联合起来。参与者描述了希望由受过专业培训的工作人员提供温暖、同情和文化敏感的支持。

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Death Studies Multiple-

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8.30

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7.90%

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期刊介绍： Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.