Prolonged Grief Disorder

Prolonged Grief Disorder : Diagnostic, Assessment, and TreatmentConsiderationsAlexander H. Jordan and Brett T. LitzVA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston University School of MedicineNormative bereavement reactions are contrasted with Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). Diagnosticcriteria for PGD are reviewed. PGD is distinguished from other problems occurring after loss,namely depression and PTSD. Assessment approaches are described. Recent clinical trials arereviewed, and recommendations for the psychotherapeutic treatment of PGD are developed. Con-sideration of medication referral is also recommended, especially in the case of : Prolonged Grief , complicated Grief , pathological Grief , traumatic Grief , psychotherapyNearly every life includes the loss of a loved one, and nearlyevery psychologist s professional life includes encounters withpatients for whom such a loss causes unusually Prolonged anddisabling Grief . In this paper, we review the growing literature onprolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), alternatively called complicatedgrief, pathological Grief , or traumatic Grief .

health care. A working group for the next edition of the ICD recently recommended adding a diagnosis of PGD to ICD-11 (Maercker et al., 2013). The group recommended diagnostic criteria (see Table 1) based on an interview study of nearly 300 bereaved individuals that used state-of-the-art psychometric validation methods to iden-

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