Resilience among parents whose child died of cancer – investigating its role on psychological distress and prolonged grief disorder: results from a cross-sectional survey in Switzerland [PDF]
BMC Palliative CareIntroduction. The death of a child profoundly impacts parents, often leading to anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. However, factors such as resilience—defined as the capacity to adapt to adversity—are less explored.
Peter Francis Raguindin +9 more
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Testing the cognitive-behavioral model of prolonged grief disorder (PGD): distinct and shared pathways to PTSD and depression [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground The cognitive-behavioral model of prolonged grief [1] posits that the interaction between autobiographical memory deficits, negative cognitions, and avoidance contributes to the onset and persistence of prolonged grief.
Emrah Keser, Paul A. Boelen
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Assessing Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder: Can One Size Fit All? [PDF]
J Nerv Ment DisThe purpose of this article is to provide conceptual, technical, and practical explanations for why a single instrument can serve as a multi-purpose measure of grief. Our thesis is based on a conceptualization of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) as persistent, intense grief.
Prigerson HG, Maciejewski PK.
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Prolonged grief: setting the research agenda [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2015 Background: Prolonged grief disorder is proposed for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), though it was rejected as a diagnosis for DSM-5.
Rita Rosner
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COVID-19: From Grief and Mourning to Prolonged Grief Disorder
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2020 N/a.
Sónia Farinha-Silva, Paulo Reis-Pina
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Grief, bereavement and prolonged grief disorder: scoping and mapping the evidence. [PDF]
BJPsych OpenBackground Some individuals experience abnormally persistent and intense symptoms of grief that significantly interfere with daily functioning. This condition has been described using terms such as complicated or prolonged grief and prolonged grief disorder (PGD).
Raine G +5 more
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Exploring reactivity effects of self-monitoring prolonged grief reactions in daily life: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial using experience sampling methodology [PDF]
Internet InterventionsBackground: While people's symptomatology levels may change through self-monitoring of symptoms in daily life using experience sampling methodology (ESM), no controlled studies have examined such reactivity effects in the grief field.
Minita Franzen, Lonneke I.M. Lenferink
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When the body speaks of loss: psychosomatic dysregulation as a mediator between insecure attachment and prolonged grief symptoms in oncological and traumatic bereavement [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundThis study investigated the role of psychosomatic dysregulation as a mediating factor in the association between attachment insecurity and prolonged grief symptoms.MethodsA cross-sectional design was used to survey 227 adults who had lost a ...
Vittorio Lenzo +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationships between perceived support at the time of assistance, insecure attachment (i.e., avoidance and anxious attachment), and prolonged grief symptoms in family caregivers of palliative care patients ...
Vittorio Lenzo +4 more
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Psychometric Properties of the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C) [PDF]
, 2016 Negative thinking is seen as an important mediating factor in the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief. No measure of specific grief related cognitions is available yet.
Boelen, P.A. (Paul) +2 more
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