Healing from Childhood Loss.

Nurs Sci Q

Lansing School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences, Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Published: April 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • Childhood loss can lead to significant environmental challenges, negatively impacting health and life satisfaction for individuals throughout their lives.
  • The report introduces a middle-range theory focused on healing childhood loss, drawing from established theories like Levine's conservation model and the theory of chronic sorrow.
  • The need for effective strategies to address and support the healing process for childhood loss is especially urgent in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted normal childhood experiences and may increase adverse childhood experiences.

Article Abstract

Childhood loss creates environmental challenges that disrupt the integrity of body-mind-spirit, having profound lifelong effects on both health outcomes and life satisfaction. The author in this report describes a middle-range theory of healing childhood loss, which can be used to guide practice and research. Theoretical influences are Levine's conservation model of nursing, the theory of chronic sorrow, and the adverse childhood experiences pyramid. Strategies to support healing of childhood loss are particularly needed and timely during this worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, with prolonged disruption of normal childhood activities and concern about a possible increased incidence of adverse childhood experiences.

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