Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions , 1st ed. 2018
Current Clinical Psychiatry Series

Coordinator: Bui Eric

Language: English

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This book is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of bereavement-related psychopathology. Written by experts in the fi eld, it addresses the recent shift in the fi eld calling for greater recognition of bereavement-related psychopathology, as evidenced by the removal of bereavement from the exclusion criteria for major depressive disorder and the provisional inclusion of a bereavement disorder as a condition requiring further study in the DSM-5. Th is text introduces and reviews the theoretical background underlying bereavement-related psychopathology, addresses the issues faced by clinicians who assess bereaved individuals in diff erent contexts, and reviews the management of and varied treatment approaches for individuals with grief reactions.

Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, students, counselors, psychiatric nurses, social workers, and all medical professionals working with patients struggling with bereavement and grief reactions.
Section 1. Introduction and Theory
1. Grief Reactions in the Antiquity 
2. Impact of Social Cultural Influences on Grief Reactions 
3. Grief and Post-Traumatic Stress Reactions
4. Grief Reactions and Other Comorbibities
5. Neurobiology of Grief Reactions
6. Grief Reactions in International Classifications

Section 2. Clinical Presentation
7. Normal and Pathologic Grief
8. Grief Reactions in Children and Adolescents
9. Grief Reactions in the Elderly
10. Grief Reactions in Suicide Survivors
11. Grief Reactions in Cancer Survivors
12. Grief Reactions in Non-Westernized Populations

Section 3. Treatment
13. Narrative Therapy for Grief Reactions
14. Mind Body Intervention for Grief Reactions: A Rationale
15. Hospice services
16. Complicated Grief Treatment
17. Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Grief Reactions
Pharmacotherapy of Grief Reactions

Eric Bui
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry
One Bowdoin Square
6th floor, Suite 650
Boston, MA 02114
USA

Written by experts in the field

The only current text to cover the DSM-5 designation of bereavement as a major depressive disorder

Covers psychopathology as well as current clinical guidelines for treatment and diagnosis