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Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions pp 301–332Cite as

Grief Reactions in Diagnostic Classifications of Mental Disorders

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Bereavement is a universal experience and grief is the natural reaction to bereavement. Over the past few decades, attempts have been made to improve the definition of pathological grief reactions. This chapter reviews the different issues around the classification of pathological grief reactions, and the different diagnostic criteria sets under discussion.

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Carmassi, C., Bertelloni, C.A., Dell’Osso, L. (2018). Grief Reactions in Diagnostic Classifications of Mental Disorders. In: Bui, E. (eds) Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions . Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65241-2_14

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