The Ultimate Trauma: A Murdered Child Counseling Considerations

IF 1 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Family Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI:10.1177/10664807231164420

J. Atwood, Kristin Schaefer-Schiumo, Ashlyn Russo

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Abstract

Nothing is more devastating to a family than the death of their child. A sudden death due to a violent crime such as murder including school shootings can be life-shattering. According to socially prescribed and predictable scripts, children are supposed to outlive their parents. When a child dies before the parent, the blueprint for one's life journey is backwards, leaving no prescribed plan to guide the family through life. When the death occurs as a result of murder, it is even more devastating. This article explores this backward script of a child dying before his or her parents because of murder and the resulting journey the family faces. It first examines the incidences of murdered children and then explores some possible barriers to the healing process. Next, the concept of scripts is explored, exploring different death scripts. The effect of a murdered child on the marital role, the parental role, and siblings is also presented. Psychological reactions are discussed and counseling considerations are presented. Counseling implications are considered throughout. This journey is demonstrated through the experiences of Cameron's family, Cameron was a 16-year-old adolescent who was murdered. This case history is fictitious and was developed to illustrate points in the paper. It is in no way related to any individual or family.

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终极创伤:一个被谋杀儿童的心理咨询

对一个家庭来说，没有什么比孩子的死亡更具有毁灭性的了。因校园枪击案等暴力犯罪而突然死亡的人，一生都会崩溃。根据社会规定和可预测的脚本，孩子应该比父母更长寿。当一个孩子先于父母去世时，一个人的人生蓝图就会倒退，没有规定的计划来指导家庭的生活。如果死亡是由谋杀造成的，那就更具毁灭性了。这篇文章探讨了这个倒退的剧本，一个孩子死在他或她的父母之前，因为谋杀和由此产生的旅程的家庭面临。它首先调查了被谋杀儿童的发生率，然后探讨了治疗过程中可能存在的一些障碍。其次，探讨了剧本的概念，探讨了不同的死亡剧本。被谋杀的孩子对婚姻角色、父母角色和兄弟姐妹的影响也被提出。心理反应进行了讨论，并提出了咨询考虑。咨询的影响是考虑贯穿始终。这段旅程是通过卡梅伦的家庭经历来展示的，卡梅伦是一个16岁的青少年，他被谋杀了。这个案例历史是虚构的，是为了说明本文的观点而开发的。它与任何个人或家庭都没有任何关系。

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Family Journal FAMILY STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

15.40%

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期刊介绍： The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families is the official journal of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC). The purpose of the journal is to advance the theory, research, and practice of counseling with couples and families from a family systems perspective.