Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to submit your manuscript to SPPS

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Adolescent Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by McNeil, J. N.
Right arrow Articles by Swihart, J. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Helping Adolescents Cope with the Death of a Peer

A High School Case Study

Joan N. McNeil

Manhattan, Kansas

Benjamin Silliman

Louisiana Tech University

Judson J. Swihart

International Family Center, Manhattan, Kansas

The authors present an exploratory study of grief and coping responses of students in a rural Midwestern high school 18 months after a peer's death from leukemia. Evidence indicated both continued bereavement as well as several expected patterns of immediate grief and coping responses. Qualitative and quantitative comparisons of close and more distant friends of the dead peer indicated that whereas close friends were more likely to have had frequent thoughts about death, experienced difficulty discussing death, and reported life changes following a peer's death, all students experienced some difficulty coping. Implications for individual and school system adjustment are discussed.

Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, 132-145 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/074355489161010
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal of Adolescent ResearchHome page
A. L. Williams and M. J. Merten
Adolescents' Online Social Networking Following the Death of a Peer
Journal of Adolescent Research, January 1, 2009; 24(1): 67 - 90.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Journal of Adolescent ResearchHome page
L. L. Ringler and D. C. Hayden
Adolescent Bereavement and Social Support: Peer Loss Compared to Other Losses
Journal of Adolescent Research, March 1, 2000; 15(2): 209 - 230.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 School Psychology InternationalHome page
A. Dyregrov, A. M. Bie Wikander, and S. Vigerust
Sudden Death of a Classmate and Friend: Adolescents' Perception of Support from Their School
School Psychology International, May 1, 1999; 20(2): 191 - 208.
[Abstract] [PDF]