In the Netherlands, every year 500,000 people are confronted with the death of a close
relative. Many of these people experience little emotional distress. In some, bereavement …

Following the death of a loved one, a small group of grievers develop an abnormal grieving
style, termed complicated or prolonged grief. In the effort to establish complicated grief as a …

Should prolonged intense grief be classified as a mental disorder in DSM-5? This is what
two research groups studying “prolonged grief disorder”(PGD) or “complicated grief …

A minority of bereaved individuals develops persistent, disabling, and distressing symptoms
of grief. As yet, there is no category for a bereavement related disorder in the most frequently …

Background Prolonged grief disorder is proposed for the International Classification of
Diseases (ICD-11), though it was rejected as a diagnosis for DSM-5. Objective This review …

The death of a loved one is one of life's greatest stressors. Most bereaved individuals
experience a period of acute grief that diminishes in intensity as they adapt to the changes …

Background: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) will be newly included in the ICD-11, while a
clinically similar diagnosis, persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD), has already …

Background Grief reactions that become abnormally persistent and cause significant
impairment in functioning have been introduced as new diagnostic entities within the …

Increased recognition that grief may turn into a disorder led to the inclusion of Persistent
Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) in DSM-5 and Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in …

BACKGROUND: Complicated grief (CG), variously called pathological or traumatic grief, is a
debilitating syndrome that is not currently included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual …