Volume 28, Issue 3
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2019.1146
PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS INDIRECT VICTIMS OF INTIMATE HOMICIDE OF THEIR MOTHER
Abstract
Although the huge damage that suffer children of women who were murdered by their intimate partner, there is not much research focused on the psychosocial effects for these children. This qualitative research pretends to identify and relate the psychosocial impact with some mediating variables, such as gender, age and caregiver's features. The results show that these indirect victims have been exposed to chronic dynamics of violence, which ends in a maternal and paternal figure loss, in real or even in symbolic terms, triggering a complex process of traumatic grief in a high-altered ecological context as well. All these factors allow the understanding of the severe psychosocial affectation that these children experience.
Keywords
Homicide; effects; children; adolescents; traumatic grief