Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder - Softcover

Reynolds, Charles F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1615374639 ISBN 13: 9781615374632

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

"Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder serves as a handbook for prolonged grief disorder (PGD), which was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition, Text Revision) in 2022. The book discusses typical grief-the process of adaptation to and acceptance of the finality of death-and helps clinicians recognize when that process has been derailed. In PGD, grief becomes prolonged, and without focused intervention, it may last for months, years, or even decades. It can be successfully treated with a relatively brief but specific psychotherapy (PGD therapy). The handbook covers epidemiology, bereavement, theories of grief, circumstances of loss, life cycle considerations, and cultural issues, but the central focus is evidence-based strategies for the clinical management of typical grief and PGD"--

About this title

About the Author

Charles F. Reynolds, III, M.D., is Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Stephen J. Cozza, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Paul K. Maciejewski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Radiology and in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Co-Director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care in New York, New York.

Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D., is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics and a Professor of Sociology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine; she is also Co-Director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care in New York, New York.

M. Katherine Shear, M.D., is the Marion K. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director of the Center for Prolonged Grief in New York, New York.

Naomi M. Simon, M.D., M.Sc., is Director of the Anxiety, Stress, and Prolonged Grief Program at NYU Langone and Professor in Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, New York.

From the Back Cover

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing environmental disasters, and—in the United States in particular—gun-related violence, the universal experience of grief has gained greater poignancy and urgency.

In 2022, against the backdrop of immense scientific progress, prolonged grief disorder (PGD) was recognized as a formal diagnosis in DSM-5-TR, as well as in ICD-11. Now, this new handbook provides both clinical and non-clinical readers with a science-based approach to identifying and addressing both "normal" grief and PGD itself.

Rife with illustrative clinical vignettes that help explain the concept of bereavement, the ways that grief presents across the life cycle, the epidemiology of PGD, and the impact of cultural factors on the experience of grief, Grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder gives readers the tools they need to recognize grief in themselves and others, strategies for the clinical management of typical grief, guidance on the specific treatment for PGD, and tips on when to refer patients for specialty care.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615374639
• ISBN 13: 9781615374632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Reynolds III Charles F., Cozza MD Stephen J., Maciejewski PhD Paul K., Prigerson Holly G., Shear MD M. Katherine, Simon Naomi, Zisook Sidney