Complicated grief
Conditions
Interventions
Group cognitive behavioral therapy for complicated grief (once a fortnight, 6 sessions, and 3 hours /one session)
Sponsors
Faculty of Human Sciences, Musashino University
Iwate Prefectural Mental Health and Welfare Centre
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Experience of the death of important others and complicated grief as the most important clinical problem (the score of BGQ more than 5) 2. 12 months and over after the death of loved one 3. Those who can get permission to participate in this program from their doctor or counselor 4. Native Japanese speaker 5. Those who can give a written informed consent 6. Those who can give a written informed consent of legally authorized representative , if they are less than 20 years old 7. Those who can participate basically in all sessions
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Those who meet a criterion for severe prolonged grief disorder by PG-13 2.Those who have difficulty to participate in or to continue the ENERGY program for the reason of presence of co-morbid psychiatric disorders (i.e. psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, alcohol/drug dependence or abuse and group A personality disorder) and severe mental health problems (e.g. severe depressive symptoms, self- injury behaviors and suicide attempt) 3.Those who have severe cognitive dysfunctions that disturb completion of ENERGY program 4.Those who have severe or unstable physical disorders 5.Experience of individual cognitive behavioral therapy or concurrent structured psychotherapy without supportive counseling 6.Those who are impossible to participate in the ENERGY program more than half of all sessions 7.Those who are judged by the ENERGY study investigators as inadequate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) score at post program, 3 months and 6 months after the program from the baseline will be compared. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subjective depressive symptoms(BDI -II), subjective traumatic symptoms for bereavement(IES-R), Grief related avoidanceGRAQ), posttraumatic cognitions (PTCI), typical belief about grief(TBQ) and QOL(SF8) score at post program, 3 months and 6 months after the program from the baseline will be compared. Dropout rate and adverse events will be also evaluated. Subjective evaluation for the ENERGY program including the understandability of the program contents and instruction, sense of burden for completing of the program and feeling of satisfaction about the program will be conducted at the post program. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactSatomi Nakajima
Musashino University Faculty of Human Sciences
Outcome results
None listed