Recent research on grief and bereavement was presented. Key points discussed include: - Theories of grief including Freud, Bowlby, Parkes, Worden and dual process model. - Phenomenology of grief including initial shock, acute discomfort, and restitution phases. - Debate around stage theories of grief and empirical evidence. - Differentiating normal grief from complicated grief, depression and PTSD. - Proposals for criteria for prolonged grief disorder in DSM-V. - Risk factors for adverse health outcomes from complicated grief including nature of relationship and death circumstances. - Evidence on efficacy of grief interventions is limited due to methodological issues in studies.

1. Recent Advances in Grief Research Presented by :Dr. Ramkumar G.S Chairperson : Dr. Geetha Desai

10. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross stages

13. Stage theory refuted The Myth of the Stages of Dying, Death and Grief Russell Friedman and John W James 2008 Refutes the stage theory and challenges the YBS. Kubler Ross in Grief and Grieving - the stage theory has much evolved and much misunderstood over the past three decades. “ They were never ment to tuck messy emotions into neat packages. Our grief is as individual as our lives. Not every one goes through all of them or goes in a prescribed order”.

16. 4 tasks of mourning-Worden 1983 1. to accept the reality of the loss 2. working through the pain of grief 3. adjusting to the environment in which the deceased is missing 4.to emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life

42. Can grief therapy cause harm.. Neimeyer(2000) - meta analysis of 23 scientifically adequate outcome studies of grief therapy pub. Btw 1975-98 The selected studies offered psychosocial intervention to randomly assigned participants in control and intervention groups Two measures used 1. degree of benefit with participation 2. estimate of treatment induced deterioration.

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