Complicated grief: scientific foundations for health care professionals

Complicated Grief provides a balanced, up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief. In this book, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout address the basic questions about the concept, manifestations and phenomena associated with complicated grief. They bring together researchers from different disciplines, providing a broad range of cultural and societal perspectives, to enable the reader to access the scientific of cultural and societal perspectives, to enable the reader to access the scientific knowledge base regarding complicated grief, on both theoretical and empirical levels. -- from back cover.

Introduction -- Outline and scope of the book / Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, & Jan van den Bout -- The nature of complicated grief : conceptual approaches -- Complicated grief : philosophical perspectives / Rachel Cooper -- The concept of complicated grief : lessons from other cultures / Paul Rosenblatt -- On achieving clarity regarding complicated grief : lessons from clinical practice / Therese Rando -- On the nature and prevalence of uncomplicated and complicated patterns of grief / Kathrin Boerner, Anthony Mancini, & George Bonanno -- Complicated grief in children / Atle Dyregrov & Kari Dyregrov -- Diagnostic categorization : scientific, clinical & societal implications -- Prolonged grief disorder as a new psychiatric category in DSM-5 / Paul Boelen & Holly Prigerson -- Is complicated/prolonged grief a disorder? : why the proposal to add a category of complicated grief disorder to the DSM-5 is conceptually and empirically unsound / Jerome Wakefield -- Lessons from ptsd for complicated grief as a new psychiatric condition / Jan van den Bout & Rolf Kleber -- Complicated grief in the context of other disorders : PTSD / Beverley Raphael, Jennifer Jacobs & Jeff Looi -- Contemporar…