Bereavement and Depression: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment

2008/10/01 by Tracey L. Auster, Christine Moutier, Nicole M. Lanouette +1 · 13 citations
Psychology · Medicine · #Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health #Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum #Family Caregiving in Mental Illness #Grief #Depression (economics) #Psychology #Complicated grief #Psychiatry #Major depressive episode #Medicine #Cognition

paper · doi:10.3928/00485713-20081001-01

published in Psychiatric Annals 38(10), 655-661 (Slack Incorporated (United States))

openalex publication_date 2008/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

CME Educational Objectives 1. Differentiate “normal” bereavement from bereavement-related major depression. 2. Identify when bereaved individuals with depressive symptoms should be treated. 3. Assemble an evidence-based treatment approach to bereavement-related depression.

Citations

• Extending the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression to Other Losses
• The social readjustment rating scale
• Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report
• Depression through the first year after the death of a spouse

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