ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the major theories/models describes the course of normal/healthy grieving and major risk factors for CG. Then it focuses on the relationship between grief work and complicated grief (CG) and also describes the major features of prolonged grief disorder (PGD). The chapter explores how the Dual-Process Model (DPM), attachment theory, and Continuing Bonds (CB) are related. The DPM suggests that the inability to distract oneself from, or avoid, grief may be as much a sign of abnormality as the inability to confront it and predicts that the extent to which bereaved individuals engage in either loss- or restoration-oriented processes depends on their attachment styles. According to the meaning reconstruction approach, the difficulty that bereaved people have in making sense of traumatic loss, such as suicide or murder, or fatal accidents, may impact on the intensity of their grief and their ability to adjust to the loss.
