"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"--
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.