TY - JOUR
T1 - A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings
AU - Willer, Erin K.
AU - Droser, Veronica A.
AU - Hoyt, Kate Drazner
AU - Hunniecutt, Jeni
AU - Krebs, Emily
AU - Johnson, Jessica A.
AU - Castaneda, Nivea
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by performing a visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings. This analysis of 131 drawings completed by children ages zero to 18 yielded three main themes, including narration of identity, narration of life and death, and narration of growing sense-making. Two continua capture these themes, including the subject of narrativization and the mode of narrativization. In presenting these findings, we provide a unique (means of) understanding children’s experience of baby loss in the family.
AB - Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by performing a visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings. This analysis of 131 drawings completed by children ages zero to 18 yielded three main themes, including narration of identity, narration of life and death, and narration of growing sense-making. Two continua capture these themes, including the subject of narrativization and the mode of narrativization. In presenting these findings, we provide a unique (means of) understanding children’s experience of baby loss in the family.
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U2 - 10.1080/15267431.2018.1428608
DO - 10.1080/15267431.2018.1428608
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041184198
VL - 18
SP - 153
EP - 169
JO - Journal of Family Communication
JF - Journal of Family Communication
SN - 1526-7431
IS - 2
ER -