Guided mourning for morbid grief: A controlled replication

Sireling, Lester; Cohen, D; Marks, Isaac

doi:10.1016/s0005-7894(88)80036-4

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“…Most interventions tend to use a combination of social support, stressreduction, and psychodynamic approaches (Kato & Mann, 1999) combined with social activities and guided mourning. Moreover, several studies (Brom et al, 1989;Mawson et al, 1981;Murphy et al, 1998;Sireling et al, 1988) emphasize the importance of distinguishing between normal and complicated grief processes, given that inappropriate therapeutic interventions seem to disturb the natural emotional processing and indigenous social support systems of the bereaved.…”

Section: Treatment Approaches To Grief Reactions or Complicated Griefmentioning

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“…In fact, results show that interventions initiated too soon after the loss can be harmful (Brom, Kleber, & Defares, 1989;Mawson, Marks, Ramm, & Stern, 1981;Murphy et al, 1998;Sireling, Cohen, & Marks, 1988). Therefore, several authors Neimeyer, 2000;Sireling et al, 1988) have concluded that interventions should only be provided for specific subgroups of bereaved individuals: (a) preventively for bereaved people lacking social support, (b) if the death occurred in traumatic circumstances, and (c) for those already showing a high level of symptoms, that is, persons suffering from complicated grief.…”

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Internet-Based Treatment for Complicated Grief: Concepts and Case Study

Wagner

Knaevelsrud²,

Maercker

2005

Journal of Loss and Trauma

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The authors review current concepts of complicated grief and propose a new Internet-based cognitive-behavioral treatment program for complicated grief. They show how complicated grief is distinguished from disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety in the literature and explore the effectiveness of existing bereavement interventions. According to meta-analyses, conventional bereavement interventions show no overall benefit and may even have harmful effects if initiated too soon. For people with complicated grief symptoms or those affected by a death in traumatic circumstances, however, interventions have proved to reduce symptoms. Against this background, the authors introduce an Internet-based cognitive-behavioral treatment program for complicated grief that integrates established methods of psychotherapy with new technology. The intervention was conducted via e-mail and aimed exclusively at clients with complicated grief. The procedure and course of this new approach are illustrated in a case study. The treatment successfully reduced symptoms. Results and further implications of an Internet-based writing protocol are discussed.

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Internet-Based Treatment for Complicated Grief: Concepts and Case Study

Wagner

Knaevelsrud²,

Maercker

2005

Journal of Loss and Trauma

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“…Both Mawson, Marks, Ramm, and Stern (1981) and Sireling, Cohen, and Marks (1988) studied an intervention of guided mourning for bereaved individuals who were identified as having experienced chronic grief for at least 1 year. The behavioral intervention involved exposure to feared and avoided bereavement cues.…”

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Intersections Between Grief and Trauma: Toward an Empirically Based Model for Treating Traumatic Grief

Regehr¹,

Sussman²

2004

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

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“…When the focus is extended to include a range of "abnormal" forms of grief, the difficulties are compounded. (p. 44) There is great diversity in terms denoting variation from normal grief, with use of such labels as: absent (Deutsch, 1937), abnormal (Pasnau, Fawney, & Fawney, 1987), complicated (Sanders, 1989), distorted (Brown & Stoudemire, 1983), morbid (Sireling, Cohen, & Marks, 1988), maladaptive (Reeves & Boersma, 1990), atypical (Jacobs & Douglas, 1979), intensified and prolonged (Lieberman & Jacobs, 1987), unresolved (Zisook & DeVaul, 1985), neurotic (Wahl, 1970), dysfunctional (Rynearson, 1987), and the frequently used division into chronic/delayed/inhibited grief (cf. Lindemann, 1944;Parkes & Weiss, 1983;.…”

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