eprintid: 10205192
rev_number: 22
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datestamp: 2025-03-13 13:57:21
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Swaffield, Sheena
title: External battles and internal struggles: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of kinship grandmothers
ispublished: unpub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
note: Copyright © The Author 2025.   Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).  Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms.  Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
abstract: Background: There is global recognition that grandparents taking on primary care of
grandchildren is an increasing phenomenon. Whilst this has benefits, kinship carers also
navigate myriad losses.
Aims: To explore the literature as it pertains to different types of loss in three key roles
and consider implications for support for these families and for society as a whole.
Methods: PsycINFO and Ovid databases were used to identify 31 English language, peer
reviewed papers from the past 30 years.
Results: Feelings associated with grief and loss were found to be common across
kinship family roles.
Discussion: There are many gaps in existent research, particularly with regard to kinship
children and birth parents, but also pertaining to grandfather-carers, and other minority
groups. Acknowledging that grief is not necessarily defined by actual death, other losses
and intergenerational trauma may be pertinent to kinship families and may need to be
mourned as part of the process of adjustment.
date: 2025-02-28
date_type: published
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_open
thesis_award: D.Psych
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2364034
lyricists_name: Swaffield, Sheena
lyricists_id: SMSSW76
actors_name: Swaffield, Sheena
actors_id: SMSSW76
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 1-125
pages: 125
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Psychology and Language Sciences
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Swaffield, Sheena;      (2025)    External battles and internal struggles: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of kinship grandmothers.                   Doctoral thesis  (D.Psych), UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
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