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## UJI offers psychological treatment for prolonged grief disorder

13/04/2021 |
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The Psychology and Technology Laboratory of the Universitat Jaume I (Labpsitec) offers free psychological therapy to people who have lost a loved one and suffer prolonged grief disorder. The treatment, which is self-applied through a web platform or in face-to-face mode with a therapist (or by videoconference if the health situation requires it), is part of the research project "GROw: una intervención basada en TIC para el tratamiento psicológico del duelo prolongado" [GROw: An ICT-based intervention for the psychological treatment of prolonged grief] and is part of the thesis of the PhD student Cintia Tur Domenech, co-directed by researchers Soledad Quero, from the UJI, and Daniel Campos, from the University of Zaragoza.

The aim of the study, which is funded by the UJI's 2018 Research Promotion Plan, is to explore the feasibility of self-applying a treatment for this disorder through comparison with the best condition, which is the standard one with a therapist. "The most important advantage of these online treatments is that they can reach more people and in times of pandemic this becomes even more relevant," notes Soledad Quero. In addition, the Labpsitec researcher highlights that this is the first self-applied programme through the Internet that has been developed in Spain for this problem, a disorder that has recently been incorporated into the ICD-11 international classification of diseases manual.

The treatment is aimed at people with prolonged grief disorder, i.e., those who have experienced the death of a loved one and who after six months or more have not been able to adapt to the loss. "It is randomly established whether the participants in the study follow the self-applied online treatment, in which they do some modules through the platform and receive a weekly call from a therapist, or whether they do it in person with a therapist (or by videoconference), but the contents included in both modalities are exactly the same," explains Cintia Tur.

The therapy has an average duration of approximately eight weeks, with the possibility of extending it up to 10 weeks and, among other components, includes detailed information on the grieving process, numerous examples, anxiety management techniques and mood enhancement, as well as elements of expressive writing for the elaboration and assimilation of the loss. In addition, it should be noted that all the techniques included are evidence-based, i.e., techniques that have been shown to be effective in the treatment of prolonged grief have been reviewed and adapted.

At this moment, since it is part of a research project that has the approval of the Deontological Commission of the UJI, the treatment is free of charge. All those interested can send an email to [growuji@gmail.com](http://growuji@gmail.com) or call 964 38 76 44.

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