What can be learned from the famous case study of Anna the girl who lived in social isolation for the first five years of her life?

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Key elements for supporting parentally bereaved children achieve better outcomes in adulthood. **Support needs to be sensitive to the family's cultural beliefs surrounding, death, dying and bereavement, parenting and the wider cultural practices in which such beliefs are imbedded

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