Psychiatry and Psychology

Prolonged Grief Disorder

Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)

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Abstract

Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)

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4 entry terms
  • Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder
  • Disorder, Prolonged Grief
  • Grief Disorder, Prolonged
  • Prolonged Grief Disorders

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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2022

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WM 172.5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Prolonged Grief Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000090382. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000090382
  2. Prolonged Grief Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolonged_grief_disorder
  3. Prolonged Grief Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6881260