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Guided mourning for morbid grief: a controlled study

D Mawson, I M Marks, L Ramm

    The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
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    Patients with morbid grief showed no improvement. Guided mourning treatment, encouraging facing bereavement cues, led to significant improvement compared to avoidance, maintained long-term.

    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Psychotherapy Research
    • Bereavement Studies

    Background:

    • Morbid grief, a prolonged and intense response to loss, significantly impacts patient well-being.
    • Existing treatments for morbid grief often yield limited or slow results.
    • A 2-week waiting period showed no significant improvement in 12 morbid grief patients.

    Observation:

    • Patients were randomly assigned to either guided mourning or control treatment.
    • Guided mourning involved actively confronting bereavement cues.
    • Control treatment involved actively avoiding bereavement cues.

    Findings:

    • Guided mourning patients demonstrated significant improvement by week 4 on three measures, with a trend on four others.
    • Improvements in the guided mourning group were modest but sustained through 10-28 weeks follow-up.

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  • Control group patients showed no significant improvement or positive trends during the study period.

    • Implications:

    • Guided mourning offers a potentially effective therapeutic strategy for individuals experiencing morbid grief.
    • Encouraging confrontation with bereavement cues may be crucial for processing grief and facilitating recovery.
    • Further research into guided mourning's long-term efficacy and mechanisms is warranted.