Effects of Spiritual-Religion Interventions on Complicated Grief Syndrome and Psychological Hardiness of Mothers with Complicated Grief Disorder

Abstract

oss of a loved one is a very painful experience that can cause grief (1). Grief is a psychological reaction to the loss of a loved one that can appear in many different forms (2). Different forms of grief are not considered as disorder per se, since grieving for such a loss is normal (3). However, some people may still remain mournful for years after the passage of the normal course of grieving (4). In this case, the person develops complicated grief, which is characterized by separation anxiety and includes loss-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that complicate the mourning process. Under such circumstances, the person shows symptoms, such as disbelief, difficulty in accepting reality, and the painfulness and bitterness of loss, and manifests an excessive desire to pursue the deceased (5, 6). Recently, a great deal of attention has been paid to complicated grief as a disorder characterized by symptoms, such as loss-related disturbing L

Experience with and attitudes towards spiritually attuned interventions in the context of grieving in the 21st century - preliminary findings among helping professionals in the Czech Republic

“…Despite this, it can be argued that they have the potential to promote good adaptation to a world changed by the death of a loved one. 32 The scope of interventions depends on the form of the conceptual definition of spirituality. Following only those interventions that correspond to spirituality as a relation to the transcendent, it is possible to identify (see Table 3) interventions in the literature focused on both the general connection between spirituality and grief as well as on more specific aspects of spirituality, such as working with spiritual texts or praying for and with clients (see, for example, Baykal, 33 Biancalani et al, 34 Burke and Neimeyer, 35 Pentaris, Patlamazoglou, and Schaub, 36 or Ahmadi and Zandi, 37 among others).…”