Complicated Grief

<p><strong>How can complicated grief be defined? How does it differ from normal patterns of grief and grieving? Who among the bereaved is particularly at risk? Can clinical intervention reduce complications?</strong></p><p><em>Complicated Grief</em> provides a balanced up-to-date state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief. In this book <em>Margaret StroebeHenk Schut and Jan van den Bout</em> 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 knowledge base regarding complicated grief on both theoretical and empirical levels. </p><p>The book is divided into four main sections:</p><ul> <li>An exploration of the nature of complicated grief</li> <li>Diagnostic categorizations </li> <li>Contemporary research on complicated grief</li> <li>Treament of complicated grief</li> </ul><p>Illuminating the foundations and new innovations in research <em>Complicated Grief</em> will be essential reading for professionals working with bereavement such as clinical psychologists health psychologists and psychiatrists researchers as well as graduate students of psychology and psychiatry.</p><p><em>Margaret Stroebe</em> is Professor at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology Utrecht University and the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology University of GroningenThe Netherlands. </p><p><em>Henk Schut</em> is Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology Utrecht University The Netherlands. </p><p><em>Jan van den Bout</em> is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University The Netherlands. </p><p><strong>Contributors</strong>:<em> </em>Paul Boelen Kathrin Boerner George Bonanno Laurie Burke Rachel Cooper Atle Dyregrov Kari Dyregrov Francesca Del Gaudio Ann-Marie Golden Jennifer Jacobs David Kissane Rolf Kleber Yeulin Li Jeffrey Looi Anthony Mancini Mario Mikulincer Michelle Moulds Robert Neimeyer Mary-Frances O'Connor John Ogrodniczuk William Piper Holly G. Prigerson Therese Rando Beverley Raphael Paul C. Rosenblatt Edward Rynearson Henk A.W. Schut Phillip Shaver Margaret S. Stroebe Jan van den Bout Marcel van den Hout Birgit Wagner Jerome C. Wakefield Edward Watkins Talia I. Zaider.</p>