Abstract
Parental death due to COVID-19 is an unexpected event that tremendously affects individuals, especially children. Parents' sudden and traumatic death can lead to traumatic grief among children. To cope with traumatic death, hope is reported to provide significant positive effects to help children to cope with their losses. Yet, this topic is scarcely discussed due to the taboo of death and grief discussion among Malaysians. This conceptual discussed topics on parental death due to COVID-19, the effects of the losses among children, and the impacts of hope in coping with the losses. This paper also emphasized the role of storytelling as a therapeutic technique to allow children to express their grief and loss in a safe environment. Promoting hope-based intervention can be promising but the implementation can be tricky as few professional help providers are trained to practice it. Therefore, this paper is important to assist the existing professional help providers and the Malaysian government to address, tackling, and empowering the children who lost their parents due to COVID-19 to ensure better health and well-being in society.
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Sahira Sabri, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Nur Atikah Mohamed Hussin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
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Conference: KAMC2022
Stream: Sociology
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Sabri S., & Hussin N. (2022) Nurturing Hope Post-COVID-19: Parental Death and Long-Term Consequences of Bereavement on Malaysian Children ISSN: 2436-0503 – The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2022: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2022.12
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2022.12
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