Transcription of Prolonged Grief Disorder
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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 anddisabl
study informing the proposed ICD-11 criteria (Prigerson et al., 2009) as well as a further study of nearly 800 bereaved individu-als’ symptoms (Simon et al., 2011). Although there is overlap between the DSM-5 diagnosis of PCBD and the proposed ICD-11 diagnosis of PGD, critics have voiced concern that some of the
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