Towards a Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention for Adult Grief Reactions
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (3) , 373-383
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.157.3.373
Abstract
Published accounts of behavioural interventions for grief have relied on exposure and habituation to grief cues as the primary strategy. Such an approach is excessively narrow, since it does not adequately confront the challenges that are posed by a bereavement. Many people cope with a bereavement by themselves, and for those, intervention may well be counterproductive. A cognitive-behavioural intervention, following models for depression/anxiety, can assist vulnerable individuals obtain a more rapid or complete adjustment.This publication has 70 references indexed in Scilit:
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