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Mental Disorders > Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders > Prolonged Grief Disorder
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Emotions > Bereavement > Prolonged Grief Disorder

Preferred term

Prolonged Grief Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder

Scope note

  • Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)

History note

  • 2022

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000090382

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