期刊名称：Social Sciences and Education Research Review
印刷版ISSN：2392-9863
电子版ISSN：2393-1264
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：36
出版社：Editura Sitech
摘要：Death and mourning that follows it are experiences that occurs in everyone`s lifeat one time. There are unavoidable, painful, sad experiences even for adults who are ableto manage their own emotions, and evenmore for children who, at least in earlychildhood and elementary school aren’t able to understand on their own what it’shappening in that moment, and how to manage their sadness and live the mourningperiod properly. Due to the fact that children are not yet fully developed cognitively,cannot understand on their own the concept of death. At that age, death seems for themnot to be permanent. Children believe that death is a reversible process that the person intheir family is temporarily left and they will return at any moment, and they will wait andask for that moment long after the actual death, if lacked of any other information.Moreover, children think that death is avoidable, since - at that age, self-centeredness issomehow a characteristic of their personality and death hasn’t affected their own person;therefore, when death occurs in their family, their reality will be brutally shaken and theywill be very disoriented. Also, in early childhood, kids have a symbolic, magicalperspective about death; they imagine it as a devil, a monster or a black lady with a scytheand many other images, far from a realistic perspective. Considering this aspects, it is veryimportant that a realistic, honest, adapted to their age perspective of death when it affectstheir family. Unfortunately, in many cultures, death is still a taboo. It still exists the beliefof overprotecting children from suffering by hiding the death of a close family member,lying them and taking them far away so that they cannot see the dead person. But actually, by practicing this, parents, teachers and persons around the children only make him be more disoriented and suffer more by not knowing what happened with the person they love. As a parent or teacher, it is very important to understand that staying beside the children and sustaining him emotionally, without hiding him any aspect about death of the loved one has a crucial importance for their future development; otherwise, it is probable that they will develop symptoms of chronic depression, and as adults, problems of attachment and extreme fear of death. Proper education for population regarding this delicate subject is a sign of a developed society. In the light of this perspectives, specialists and psychotherapists should be prepared to offer advice and support in any moment so that parents will be learn how to stand by their children in the hard and long process of managing their negative emotions, living their mourning together.
