Prolonged grief disorder for ICD-11: the primacy of clinical utility and international applicability
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A new mental health disorder, prolonged grief disorder (PGD), will be included in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). We provide a brief overview of the historical conceptualizations of disordered grief and the previous research efforts to assess and define this condition. We describe the new ICD-11 PGD symptom criteria and how they are conceptualized in terms of the World Health Organization's call for improved clinical utility. Finally, we review the research evidence for the clinical utility of the new ICD-11 PGD symptom structure and usability in the international arena.
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PGD has been included in ICD-11 with a time criterion of 6 months following bereavement.
“Recently, PGD has been included in the International Classification of Diseases, 11th revision (ICD-11) (Killikelly and Maercker, 2017;Prigerson et al., 2009;World Health Organization, 2018) with a time criterium of 6 months following bereavement.”
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- Authors
- Killikelly, C., & Maercker, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Department of Psychology, Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Corresponding author
- Killikelly, Clare
- Venue
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-12-29
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- sup6
- Pages
- 1476441-1476441
- ISSN
- 2000-8066 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5990943
- OpenAlex
- W2898818716
- Cited by
- 187
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 25.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- prolonged grief disorder, ICD-11, clinical utility, symptom criteria, diagnostic classification, international applicability, bereavement
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