Adolescent Bereavement

With given analysis, the bereavement experience for adolescent parents embodies much complicated
stages of development than adults. According to Balk, the experience works as a stimulus for the
advancement of self-acknowledgement, which aid their reflection on significant changes in morality,
spirituality and etc. By virtue of that, he also put an emphasis on the nurturing of emotional intelligence
– an ability to manage your interpersonal relations, assert your identity and maintain mentally healthy
lifestyle.

Perinatal loss as miscarriage, neonatal death can also provoke their deep inner clash. Regret, guilt,
anger, relief can simultaneously occupy their status all at once. The profundity of this experience are
also not well-understood by some adolescent parents until their fear highlights the past loss again as
they go through another perinatal period.

Sophisticated as the adolescent bereavement is, the long-term effects have not been studied thoroughly
enough. Particularly, while there is an eclectic mix of articles about the maternal sequelae after suffering
losses, they have failed to concentrate on adolescent population as considering them insignificant.
Consequently, deficiency of published data has led to difficulties of trying to generalize and comprehend
perinatal loss’ effect on adolescent.