The following open access articles cover a range of topics in relation to prolonged grief disorder (PGD), including evaluations of cognitive therapy for PGD and the cognitive processes involved in grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Killikelly, C., Smith, K.V., Zhou, N., Prigerson, H.G., O\u2019Connor, M.F., Kokou-Kpolou, K., Boelen, P.A., Maercker, A. (2025). Prolonged Grief Disorder. The Lancet, 405(10489),<\/em> 1621-1632. doi:10.1016\/S0140-6736(25)00354-X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ren, F., Zhou, N., Cao, C., She, Z., Smith, K.V., Xi, J. (2025). Can self-distancing benefit adjustment to bereavement? A multi-method investigation. Social Science & Medicine, 367<\/em>. doi:10.1016\/j.socscimed.2025.117743<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K.V., Wild, J., Ehlers, A. (2024). From loss to disorder: The influence of maladaptive coping in prolonged grief. Psychiatry Research<\/em>, 339<\/em>. 10.1016\/j.psychres.2024.116060<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Egan, S. J., Munro, C., Pauley-Gadd, S. B., O’Brien, A., Callaghan, T., Payne, N., Raghav, S., Myers, B., Hall, C., Wilson, H., Eisma, M. C., Boelen, P. A., Smith, K. V., Wild, J., Duffy, M., Trickey, D., Bills, E., & Breen, L. J. (2024). A protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of unguided internet cognitive behaviour therapy for grief in adolescents.\u00a0Internet interventions<\/em>,\u00a038<\/em>. doi:10.1016\/j.invent.2024.100771<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rodriguez-Villar, S., Okegbola, E. O., Arevalo-Serrano, J., Duval, Y., Mathew, A., Rodriguez-Villar, C., \u2026 Prigerson, H. G. (2024). Grief and coping among relatives of patients who died of COVID-19 in intensive care during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0BJPsych Open<\/em>,\u00a010(6)<\/em>. doi:10.1192\/bjo.2024.741<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zhou, N., Wei, Y., Killikelly, C., Xu, X., Stelzer, E. M., Maercker, A., Xi, J., & Smith, K. V. (2023). The relationship between social acknowledgment and prolonged grief symptoms: a multiple mediation effect of beliefs about the goodness and controllability of grief-related emotions.\u00a0European journal of psychotraumatology<\/em>,\u00a014(2)<\/em>. doi:10.1080\/20008066.2023.2220633<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zhou, N., Smith, K. V., Stelzer, E., Maercker, A., Xi, J., & Killikelly, C. (2023). How the bereaved behave: a cross-cultural study of emotional display behaviours and rules.\u00a0Cognition & emotion<\/em>,\u00a037(5)<\/em>, 1023\u20131039. doi:10.1080\/02699931.2023.2219046<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zhou, N., Zhao, Y., Smith, K. V., Killikelly, C., Stelzer, E., Maercker, A., Xi, J., & Helm, P. J. (2023). Existential isolation and prolonged grief in bereaved people: The moderating role of culture.\u00a0Clinical psychology & psychotherapy<\/em>,\u00a030(4)<\/em>, 862\u2013872. doi:10.1002\/cpp.2846<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Duffy, M., & Wild, J. (2023). Living with loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder – incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief.\u00a0Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy<\/em>,\u00a051(6)<\/em>, 645\u2013658. doi:10.1017\/S1352465822000674<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wanza, C., Gonschor, J., Smith, K., Ehlers, A., Barke, A., Rief, W., Doering, B. (2023). Feeling Alone in one’s Grief: Investigating Social Cognitions in Adaption to Bereavement using the German Version of the Oxford Grief-Social Disconnection Scale. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation<\/em>, 7(2)<\/em>, 2468-7499. doi:10.1016\/j.ejtd.2023.100327<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K.V., & Ehlers, A. (2023). Coping strategies as a causal mediator of the effect of loss-related memory characteristics and negative loss-related appraisals on symptoms of PGD, PTSD and depression.\u00a0Psychological Medicine,\u00a053(4), <\/em>1542-1551. doi:10.1017\/S0033291721003123<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K. V., Wild, J., & Ehlers, A. (2022). Psychometric Characteristics of the Oxford Grief Memory Characteristics Scale and Its Relationship With Symptoms of ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR Prolonged Grief Disorder.\u00a0Frontiers in psychiatry<\/em>,\u00a013<\/em>. doi:10.3389\/fpsyt.2022.814171<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Harrop, E., Goss, S., Farnell, D., et al. (2021). Support needs and barriers to accessing support: Baseline results of a mixed-methods national survey of people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0Palliative Medicine, 35(10)<\/em>, 1985-1997. doi:10.1177\/02692163211043372<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prigerson, H. G., Boelen, P. A., Xu, J., Smith, K. V., & Maciejewski, P. K. (2021). Validation of the new DSM-5-TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG-13-Revised (PG-13-R) scale. World Psychiatry<\/em>, 20(1)<\/em>, 96-106. doi:10.1002\/wps.20823<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K. V., & Ehlers, A. (2021). Prolonged Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following the Loss of a Significant Other: An Investigation of Cognitive and Behavioural Differences. PLOS ONE 16(4)<\/em>: e0248852. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0248852<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K.V., Rankin, H., & Ehlers, A. (2020). A qualitative analysis of loss-related memories after cancer loss: a comparison of bereaved people with and without prolonged grief disorder, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1).<\/em> doi:10.1080\/20008198.2020.1789325<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith, K. V., Wild, J., & Ehlers, A. (2020). The Masking of Mourning: Social disconnection in Bereavement and its Role in Psychological Distress. Clinical Psychological Science<\/em>, 8(3)<\/em>, 1-13. doi:10.1177\/2167702620902748<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n