ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2021
The pain of grief: Exploring the concept of psychological pain and its relation to complicated grief, depression, and risk for suicide in bereaved adults.
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- Study protocol for a randomized trial examining a peer grief support approach for people grieving drug overdose deaths.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Trial
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- The resilience mediation effect on the relationship of suicide risk and psychological pain in nursing students: Structural equation modelling.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Nurse assistants' experiences of encountering patients in grief due to the death of a loved one - a qualitative study in municipal health and social care.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Review
- Living with grief and thriving after loss: a qualitative study of Chinese parents whose only child has died.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Transcending the self to transcend suffering.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The causal systems approach to prolonged grief: Recent developments and future directions.Current opinion in psychology · 2022Review
- Prolonged Grief Disorder: Course, Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Review
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- Traumatic grief research and care in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.European journal of psychotraumatologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveEmotional or psychological pain is a core symptom of complicated grief (CG), yet its correlates are largely unexamined among bereaved individuals.
methodBereaved adults (N = 135) completed self-reports regarding psychological pain, CG, depression, and suicidality. We assessed correlations among these variables and tested whether psychological pain was elevated among individuals with CG and individuals with current or past suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Using logistic regression, we also assessed psychological pain, depression, and CG symptom severity as predictors of suicide risk.
resultsPsychological pain was strongly associated with both CG and depression severity and was elevated among subjects reporting current or past suicidality. CG and depression were not statistically significant predictors of suicidal ideation after accounting for the effects of psychological pain.
conclusionsPsychological pain is strongly associated with bereavement-related psychopathology and warrants further investigation in studies examining the nature and treatment of CG.
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