Children with family caregiving responsibilities: The experience of grief during youth caregiving | Non-Member Registration

Description

Children and adolescents with family caregiving responsibilities, known as “youth caregivers”, provide support to their ill, disabled, addicted, and injured family members. While the estimated 5.4 million youth caregivers in the US are under-researched and under-supported, even far less attention is given to their experience of grief. This webinar will introduce the issue of youth caregiving, focusing on impacts to education and their psychosocial development. Attendees can then expect a nuanced discussion of anticipatory grief in children providing care for those with terminal illnesses, progressive conditions, and dementia-related diseases. After the death of the care recipient, youth caregivers have been reported to experience role and identity loss, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a removal from caregiving support services—all during compounded grief. This webinar will feature the author’s own qualitative and quantitative international research with youth caregivers and will provide evidence-based recommendations for improved practice with youth caregivers experiencing grief.