In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in
Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language …

Background Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a bereavement-specific syndrome expected
to be included in the forthcoming ICD-11. Defining the prevalence of PGD will have …

Among the important changes in the ICD‐11 is the addition of 21 new mental disorders. New
categories are typically proposed to: a) improve the usefulness of morbidity statistics; b) …

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the worst public health crises in a century, with an
expected amount of deaths of several million worldwide and an even bigger number of …

Losing a loved one is one of life's greatest stressors. Although most bereaved individuals
navigate through a period of intense acute grief that lessens with time, approximately 10 …

Key Clinical Points Complicated Grief Complicated grief is unusually severe and prolonged,
and it impairs function in important domains. Characteristic symptoms include intense …

Importance To our knowledge, this is the first placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial to
evaluate the efficacy of antidepressant pharmacotherapy, with and without complicated grief …

Background The present meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of psychological interventions
for grief in bereaved adults and explores the possible moderating influence of various study …

Spousal bereavement can cause a rise in depressive symptoms. This study empirically
evaluates 2 competing explanations concerning how this causal effect is brought about:(a) a …

From white-collar to environmental crime, and hate crime to sexual violence, the study of
victims and of the processes of victimisation is indispensable to understanding the full scale …