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This Research Topic is the second volume of the 'Community Series in Grief Disorders: Clinical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Aspects'. Please see the first volume here.
The inclusion of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the upcoming text Revision of the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR), and its predecessor persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in DSM-5, has prompted mental health professionals to diagnose and treat disordered grief. Bereavement is known to be capable of precipitating common mental disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, to many clinicians, the concept of a grief disorder is new and therefore unfamiliar.
This Research Topic aims to contribute towards filling the knowledge gap surrounding disordered grief by focusing on three aspects:
- Clinical aspects include diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of grief disorders. A specific focus is on mental disorders following bereavement due to violent causes of death, so-called traumatic grief.
- Cultural aspects include death and mourning rituals, anthropological, religious, and spiritual aspects as well as multiculturalism and globalization.
- Epidemiological aspects include prevalence of risk factors for PGD in various populations as well as preclinical and clinical studies of neurobiological and immunological correlates of grief disorders in humans.
The inclusion of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the upcoming text Revision of the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR), and its predecessor persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in DSM-5, has prompted mental health professionals to diagnose and treat disordered grief. Bereavement is known to be capable of precipitating common mental disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, to many clinicians, the concept of a grief disorder is new and therefore unfamiliar.
This Research Topic aims to contribute towards filling the knowledge gap surrounding disordered grief by focusing on three aspects:
- Clinical aspects include diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of grief disorders. A specific focus is on mental disorders following bereavement due to violent causes of death, so-called traumatic grief.
- Cultural aspects include death and mourning rituals, anthropological, religious, and spiritual aspects as well as multiculturalism and globalization.
- Epidemiological aspects include prevalence of risk factors for PGD in various populations as well as preclinical and clinical studies of neurobiological and immunological correlates of grief disorders in humans.
Keywords: grief disorders, traumatic grief, culture, neurobiology, diagnosis, treatment
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