ABSTRACT

Bereaved adolescents and adults suffering from Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), that is, the experience of yearning, difficulties accepting the loss, disbelief, difficulties moving on without the lost person, and other symptoms of grief to a distressing and disabling degree, beyond the first half-year of bereavement. It may not be appropriate for the transitory distress commonly associated with adaptive grief in the early months of loss.