A5060394021- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Family Support in Illness
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Mental Health via Writing
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Utrecht University
2016-2025
Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group
2016-2025
Foundation Centrum '45
2016-2025
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2024
Universität Hamburg
2024
MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical University
2024
University of Groningen
2017-2021
University Medical Center Utrecht
2021
Princess Máxima Center
2021
Wilhelmina Children's Hospital
2021
Bereavement is a universal experience, and its association with excess morbidity mortality well established. Nevertheless, grief becomes serious health concern for relative few. For such individuals, intense persists, distressing disabling, may meet criteria as distinct mental disorder. At present, not recognized disorder in the DSM-IV or ICD-10. The goal of this study was to determine psychometric validity prolonged (PGD) enhance detection potential treatment bereaved individuals at...
A cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of complicated grief (CG) is introduced that offers a framework for the generation hypotheses about mechanisms underlie CG and can be targeted in treatment. Three processes are seen as crucial development maintenance CG: (a) insufficient integration loss into autobiographical knowledge base, (b) negative global beliefs misinterpretations reactions, (c) anxious depressive avoidance strategies. These offered to account occurrence symptoms, whereas...
Few studies have examined treatments for complicated grief--a debilitating condition that can develop after the loss of a loved one. This study compared effectiveness cognitive-behavioral therapy with nonspecific treatment supportive counseling (SC). Using minimization method, 54 mourners clinically significant levels grief were allocated to 1 3 conditions: (a) 6 sessions cognitive restructuring (CR) and exposure (ET; CR + ET), (b) in which these interventions applied reversed order (ET CR),...
Although the concept of pathological grief dates back at least as far Freud’s “ Mourning and Melancholia ”, there has been opposition to its recognition a distinct mental disorder. Resistance overcome by evidence demonstrating that distinctive symptoms prolonged disorder (PGD) – an attachment disturbance featuring yearning for deceased, loss meaning identity disruption can endure, prove distressing disabling, require targeted treatment. In acknowledgement this evidence, American Psychiatric...
There exists a general consensus that prolonged grief disorder (PGD), or some variant of PGD, represents distinct mental worthy diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, confusion remains over whether different names proposed symptom criteria for this identify the same diagnostic entities. This study aimed to determine complicated (CG), persistent complex bereavement (PCBD) as described by DSM-5 are substantively merely semantically Data were derived from Yale Bereavement Study, longitudinal...
Complicated grief is a prolongation of the normal grieving process with distinct characteristics. It impairs mental and physical health can potentially greatly impact quality life sufferers their families. The prevalence characteristics complicated in general population are currently unclear. aims present study were therefore to evaluate population-based cohort, examine overlap between anxiety depression identify common bereavement-related socio-demographic characteristics.Based within...
When grief reactions after bereavement are so intense that they impair daily functioning, a diagnosis of disturbed may apply. Slightly differing criteria-sets for included in the ICD-11, DSM-5, and its forthcoming text revision, DSM-5-TR. We examined psychometric properties new self-report measure, 22-item Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+), assesses these criteria sets Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) as per Prolonged (PGD) defined ICD-11 DSM-5-TR.We the: i)...
OBJECTIVE: The authors used confirmatory factor analysis to replicate earlier findings that complicated grief, depression, and anxiety are distinct syndromes. METHOD: Data were derived from 1,321 bereaved individuals. Complicated grief was measured with the Inventory of Traumatic Grief. Depression SCL-90. RESULTS: A model in which symptoms loaded on separate factors superior a one-factor model, revealed good fit, invariant across subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: Previous distinction among confirmed.
Ruminative coping has been associated with negative outcomes in bereavement. Rather than assuming it to be a problematic confrontation process, researchers have recently suggested rumination maladaptive through its links avoidance processes. The main aim of this study was examine, for the first time, whether relationship between ruminative and symptoms complicated grief depression is mediated by processes (suppression, memory/experiential avoidance, behavioral loss-reality avoidance). A...
Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) is a disorder of grief newly included in the "Emerging Measures and Models" section 5th edition Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, Citation2013). Prolonged Grief (PGD) with similar symptoms, likely to be forthcoming 11th International Classification Diseases (ICD-11; World Health Organization, Citation1992). We developed Traumatic Inventory Self-Report version (TGI-SR), an 18-item measure,...
Background Previous latent trajectory studies in adult bereaved people have identified individual differences reactions postloss. However, prior findings may not reflect the complete picture of distress postloss, because they were focused on depression symptoms following nonviolent death. We examined trajectories symptom-levels persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD), depression, and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) a disaster-bereaved sample. also investigated associations among these...
The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report version (TGI-SR) is an 18-item self-report measure. It was designed to assess symptoms of Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 Prolonged (PGD) proposed by international group experts grief. research this article used data from a bereaved patient sample people who lost loved ones the Ukrainian airplane crash July 2014. Findings indicated that TGI-SR reliable valid tool...
Each individual's grief process is unique.The concept of stages occurring in a specific order popular, yet inadequate representation what grieving people go through. 1 Traditional models developed to understand therefore often unhelpfully suggest that all bereaved individual do, and even should, follow the same towards recovery from loss.The newer task model 2 offers more neutral framework describe normal disturbed grief.The proposes successful achievement certain "grief tasks," whereas...