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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11
TLDR
The psychometric validity of criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is tested to enhance the detection and care of bereaved individuals at heightened risk of persistent distress and dysfunction.
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SEARCHING FOR THE MEANING OF MEANING: GRIEF THERAPY AND THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTION
  • R. Neimeyer
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Death studies
  • 1 September 2000
TLDR
This article considers the findings of C. C. Silver (this issue) and their implications for a meaning reconstruction approach to grief therapy, arguing that an expanded conception of meaning is necessary to provide a stronger basis for clinical intervention.
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Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance: Toward a Model of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement
Constructivist theories recently have begun to inform understandings of grief, emphasizing the role of meaning making in adaptation to bereavement. In this article we review empirical studies using…
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Complicated grief and related bereavement issues for DSM‐5
TLDR
Modifications in the bereavement V code and refinement of bereavement exclusions in major depression and other disorders are discussed.
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Meaning reconstruction & the experience of loss.
Debunking the notion that an invariant sequence of stages of grief occurs among all who experience the death of a loved one, this groundbreaking volume clearly demonstrates that highly individual…
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Continuing Bonds and Reconstructing Meaning: Mitigating Complications in Bereavement
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An interaction emerged between sense-making and ongoing attachment to the deceased, suggesting that strong continuing bonds predicted greater levels of traumatic and especially separation distress, but only when the survivor was unable to make sense of the loss in personal, practical, existential, or spiritual terms.
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Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping
Loss As a Meaning-Making Journey Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping Robert A. Neimeyer. New York: McGraw-Hill (www. mcgraw-hill.com). 1998, 214 pp., $30.59 (softcover). Robert Neimeyer is not only…
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PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON DEATH ATTITUDES: AN OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION
TLDR
The authors review the large and multifaceted literature on death anxiety, fear, threat and acceptance, focusing on the attitudes toward death and dying of relevant professional and patient groups, and the relationship of death concern to aging, physical and mental health, religiosity, and terror management strategies.
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The effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions for bereaved persons: a comprehensive quantitative review.
TLDR
Overall, analyses showed that interventions had a small effect at posttreatment but no statistically significant benefit at follow-up, but interventions that exclusively targeted grievers displaying marked difficulties adapting to loss had outcomes that compare favorably with psychotherapies for other difficulties.
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Sense-Making, Grief, and the Experience of Violent Loss: Toward a Mediational Model
TLDR
Initial support is provided for a model of grief in which failure to find meaning in a loss is conceptualized as a crucial pathway to complicated grief symptomatology.
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