OBJECTIVE This paper, the second of two, represents a theoretical framework for interventions related to loss by death of someone close, or chronic pain. This work is based on our previous understanding where grief is considered an integrated experience which involves movements on several continua. METHODS We have performed a comparison between two interventions dealing with grief and chronic...

This paper argues that grieving a profound loss is transformative experience, specifically an unchosen understood as event-based transformation not chosen by the agent. Grief transforms self (i) cognitively, forcing agent to alter large set of beliefs and desires, (ii) phenomenologically, altering their experience in diffuse or global manner, (iii) normatively, requiring revise practical identi...

It’s been a tough couple of years. Each one among us could list off the news headlines as lengthy and overwhelming reminder. And each certainly curate personalized that amplifies extends our collective sufferings. The past years have left me wondering, “what possibly be next?” I heed David Geoffrey Smith’s (2014) call to “reimagine new, wiser human possibilities” for overlapping worlds sufferin...

OBJECTIVE To verify the association between complicated grief and sociodemographic, reproductive, mental, marital satisfaction, and professional support characteristics in women after stillbirth. METHOD Cross-sectional study with 26 women who had stillbirth in 2013, living in the city of Maringá, Brazil, and eight women who attended the Centre d'Études et de Rechercheen Intervention Familiale...

PURPOSE Over the past decade, Prigerson and her colleagues have shown that symptoms of 'complicated grief'-intense yearning, difficulty accepting the death, excessive bitterness, numbness, emptiness, and feeling uneasy moving on and that the future is bleak-are distinct from depression and anxiety and are independently associated with substantial morbidity. Little is known about complicated gri...

Overview In 2009, following the completion of a National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health– funded investigation of consensus criteria for disordered grief, we published validated criteria for a new diagnosticentity,prolongedgriefdisorder (PGD).1Based on the results of this field trial, the Yale Bereavement Study (YBS), we proposed PGD’s inclusion in theDSM5 and the Inter...

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) (previously called complicated grief (CG)) is proposed as a distinct post loss syndrome, with its own core symptoms. A key issue concerning the diagnostic validity of PGD is whether it can reliably be distinguished from related psychiatric outcomes following bereavement. This study therefore sought to determine whether the core symptoms of PGD could be distinguish...

Background: Little is known about the development of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) symptoms over time in adults. For clinical purposes, it would be useful to have knowledge about early indicators of a problematic grief trajectory. Objective: This study aimed to identify classes of bereaved individuals with similar trajectories of PGD symptoms and to design a provisional screening tool includin...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relation between spiritual beliefs and resolution of bereavement. DESIGN Prospective cohort study of people about to be bereaved with follow up continuing for 14 months after the death. SETTING A Marie Curie centre for specialist palliative care in London. PARTICIPANTS 135 relatives and close friends of patients admitted to the centre with terminal illness. MAIN...