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Complicated Grief Treatment: An Evidence-Based Approach to Grief Therapy

Auteurs: M. Katherine Shear, Colleen Gribbin Bloom

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | Uitgave 1/2017

Abstract

Complicated grief is a condition that occurs when something impedes the process of adapting to a loss. The core symptoms include intense and prolonged yearning, longing and sorrow, frequent insistent thoughts of the deceased and difficulty accepting the painful reality of the death or imagining a future with purpose and meaning. Complicated grief can cause substantial distress and impairment and it is important that clinicians learn to recognize and treat this condition. Complicated grief treatment is a 16-session evidence-based psychotherapy developed to release and facilitate a bereaved person’s natural adaptive response. The current paper clarifies the conceptual underpinnings of this approach, provides a description of the major treatment components, structure of each session, and suggestions for how clinicians can use the treatment to help clients suffering from complicated grief. A case example is also included to illustrate this discussion.

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Titel: Complicated Grief Treatment: An Evidence-Based Approach to Grief Therapy
Auteurs: M. Katherine Shear
Colleen Gribbin Bloom
Publicatiedatum: 24-05-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy / Uitgave 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0894-9085
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6563
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-016-0242-2

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