Treatment: Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)
Complicated Grief Treatment occurs over 16 sessions in which manualized intervention is used to reduce the symptoms of prolonged grief disorder. CGT combines aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment therapy and other techniques to assist the patient in adapting a natural process to grief. CGT focuses on loss and restoration as well as the "dual process model of grief". The "loss" focus of CGT includes helping the patient accept the reality of the death and alter their relationship with the person who died. The "restoration" part of CGT focuses on creating and working toward goals without the person that has passed as well as feeling competent and satisfied in the world without the person that died.
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