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Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or other living thing to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Grief therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat severe or complicated traumatic grief reactions, [13] which are usually brought on by the loss of a close person (by separation or death) or by community disaster. The goal of grief therapy is to identify and solve the psychological and emotional problems which appeared as a consequence.
Lack of appropriate coping can bring many ailments to a person, mental and physical. [5] Healthy coping is achieved when the bereaved person is enabled to go forward with healthy, productive living by effortfully developing "new normals" to guide that living which is characterized by lesser stressful demands compared to the initial phase of grief.
The five stages of grief can be applied to most people’s emotional journey while suffering from a painful loss or life-altering event, but mental health experts emphasize that every person’s ...
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), also known as complicated grief (CG), [1] traumatic grief (TG) [2] and persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in the DSM-5, [3] is a mental disorder consisting of a distinct set of symptoms following the death of a family member or close friend (i.e. bereavement).
In a study comparing interpretive therapy groups to a general supportive group for grief, only the interpretive therapy group had lasting improvements to symptoms at a six-month follow-up. [50] Quality of Object Relations (QoR) is a personality variable that may affect usefulness of interpretive group therapy for participants. [49]