Prolonged grief disorder in section II of DSM-5: a commentary

Paul A Boelen^{1

2}, Maarten C Eisma³, Geert E Smid^{2

4}, Lonneke I M Lenferink^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Diemen, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Paul A Boelen et al. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 25;11(1):1771008.

doi: 10.1080/20008198.2020.1771008.

Paul A Boelen^{1

2}, Maarten C Eisma³, Geert E Smid^{2

4}, Lonneke I M Lenferink^{1

3}

¹ Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Diemen, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁴ University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Conflict of interest statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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