Context (archaeology)

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Virology

Archaeology

Psychiatry

Computer science

Anxiety

Anger

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

PsycINFO

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Grief

Psychology

Somatization

Political science

Psychotherapist

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

MEDLINE

Distress

Medicine

Clinical psychology

Regret

Disease

Disenfranchised grief

Machine learning

Traumatic grief

Pathology

History

Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

The circumstances of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths embed multiple traumatic characteristics, alongside several external factors that can disenfranchise individual grief.In this context, severe forms of traumatic distress, guilt, somatization, regret, anger, and unspecific symptoms not yet included in prolonged grief disorder (PGD) criteria could emerge.This article (a) analyzes factors related to bereavement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) proposes avenues for meaning-making practices to facilitate individual and collective mourning process; and (c) invites clinicians to pay attention to the traumatic characteristics of COVID-19-related deaths adopting a holistic approach of PGD clinical manifestations, as well as in evaluation and treatment of cases.

Prolonged grief related to COVID-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs?