Psychiatric News (2/3) reports, “The addition of the diagnostic category prolonged grief disorder to DSM-5-TRis timely and important given the COVID-19 pandemic’s enormous death toll, wrote Holly Prigerson, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues in a Viewpoint” published online Feb. 2 in JAMA Psychiatry. The authors of the viewpoint wrote, “Because of the pandemic, the absolute number of [prolonged grief disorder] cases is likely to increase and the 7% to 10% prevalence rate among…bereaved people may rise.” They added, “Clinicians should learn how to accurately assess, to accurately and differentially diagnose, and to offer or refer patients for treatment.”
Related Links:
— “New Criteria Can Help Clinicians Diagnose, Treat Prolonged Grief Disorder, Psychiatric News, February 3, 2022