TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ivers, Nathaniel N. et al.
TI  - Understanding prolonged grief from an existential counseling perspective
T2  - Journal of Counseling & Development
CY  - USA:American Counseling Association,2024
KW  - Existential Counseling, Mindfulness
N1  - In this article, we examine prolonged grief through an existential theoretical lens. In particular, we critically compare criteria for prolonged grief disorder with existential theoretical principles, including existential phenomenology, existential relatedness, and existential givens of human existence: death anxiety, existential freedom, existential isolation, and existential meaning/meaninglessness. We explore how existential perspectives and principles provide a clinically useful explanation for the presence and etiology of many of the symptoms of prolonged grief. We also describe counseling implications for treating prolonged grief phenomenologically, relationally, and through the lens of the four existential givens
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcad.12518
ER  -