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Background: Functional impairment is essential in the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in the ICD-11. It refers to the negative impact on everyday life, including inability to maintain the usual level of functioning.
Mette Kjaergaard Nielsen+8 more
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Mutual partners' support in the process of the bereavement after the death of the child [PDF]
The death of a close person is one of the hardest situations which individuals face several times in their lifetimes. The death of a child is especially stressful.
Polona Ozbič
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Background Bereavement is the experience of an individual following the death of a person of significance to the individual, most often referring to the spouse.
Zhuo Chen+7 more
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Identifying systems barriers that may prevent bereavement service access to bereaved carers: A report from an Australian specialist palliative care service [PDF]
Background: Bereavement follow up is an integral element of palliative care. However, little is known about the systems that link bereavement services with bereaved carers.
Currow, David+4 more
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Love and loss are two sides of the same coin. Patterns of attachment to parents in childhood predict how adults will respond to losses in adult life. Avoidant attachments predict avoidance of closeness, delayed grief and self-reproaches, anxious attachments predict severe and protracted grief ...
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Do good health and material circumstances protect older people from the increased risk of death after bereavement? [PDF]
This is an open access Article. Copyright @ 2012 The AuthorsAn increased risk of death in persons who have suffered spousal bereavement has been described in many populations.
Bourke+23 more
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Background: ‘Complicated grief reactions’ is an umbrella term covering symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGS) and other post-loss complications, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress (PTS). While PGS often co-occurs with
Katrine B. Komischke-Konnerup+4 more
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The Emotional and Economic Costs of Bereavement in Health Care Settings
Research to date on grief and bereavement in health care providers has focused on those experiences from the perspective of the individual. We propose, however, that the emotional costs of bereavement in the health care setting are also health care ...
Janice L Genevro, Therese L Miller
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Peer-group support for bereaved children: a qualitative interview study [PDF]
Background: While it has been shown that bereaved children can experience emotional or behavioural problems, the evidence is inconclusive regarding which children would benefit from support and the kind of support to offer.
Black+22 more
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The Price of Sadness: Comparison between the Netherlands and South Africa
Bereavement can be a precipitating and perpetuating factor for various psychiatric injuries. However, the normal experience of bereavement also causes significant disruption and stress in an individual’s psychosocial functioning.
Andre Mukheibir, Gregory Mitchell
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