BACKGROUND: Traumatic events such as disasters, accidents, war, or criminal violence are often accompanied by the loss of loved ones, and may then give rise to traumatic grief. Traumatic grief refers to a clinical diagnosis of @entity74 ( @entity74 ) with comorbid (symptoms of) @entity1005 ( @entity1005 ) and/or @entity308 ( @entity308 ) following confrontation with a @entity393 . @entity130 survivors, who are frequently from different cultural backgrounds, have often experienced multiple losses and ambiguous loss (missing family members or friends). Current evidence-based treatments for @entity1005 do not focus on traumatic grief. OBJECTIVE: To develop a treatment for traumatic grief combining treatment interventions for @entity1005 and @entity74 that may accommodate cultural aspects of grief. METHOD: To provide a rationale for treatment, we propose a cognitive stress model of traumatic grief. Based on this model and on existing evidence-based treatments for @entity1005 and complicated grief, we developed Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for Traumatic Grief (BEP-TG) for the treatment of @entity1 with traumatic grief. The treatment is presented along with a case vignette. RESULTS: Processes contributing to traumatic grief include inadequately integrating the memory of the @entity393 , negative appraisal of the @entity393 , sensitivity to matching triggers and new stressors, and attempting to avoid distress. BEP-TG targets these processes. The BEP-TG protocol consists of five parts with proven effectiveness in the treatment of @entity74 , @entity1005 , and @entity308 : information and motivation, grief-focused exposure, memorabilia and writing assignments, finding meaning and activation, and a farewell ritual. CONCLUSION: Tailored to fit the needs of @entity130 survivors, BEP-TG can be used to address traumatic grief symptoms related to multiple losses and ambiguous loss, as well as cultural aspects of bereavement through its different components.

Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for Traumatic Grief (BEP-TG): toward integrated treatment of symptoms related to XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['MDD', 'major depressive disorder'] @entity1005 :: ('MESH:D013313', 'Disease') :: ['posttraumatic stress disorder', 'PTSD'] @entity74 :: ('MESH:D030342', 'Disease') :: ['persistent complex bereavement disorder', 'PCBD'] @entity393 :: ('MESH:D034381', 'Disease') :: ['traumatic loss'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['Trauma', 'trauma']
@entity393 :: (MESH:D034381,Disease) :: ['traumatic loss']
