Grief in the DSM-5: The Most Recent Diagnostic Guidelines – Christina Zampitella

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Designed for mental health professionals, this course discusses the most recent bereavement-related diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5® including the bereavement exclusion in major depressive disorder, uncomplicated grief, and persistent complex bereavement disorder. You’ll learn why the changes were needed, what the implications of those changes are in clinical practice, and how those implications can enhance or detract from differential bereavement assessments. Also discussed is a look ahead to why the inclusion of prolonged grief disorder in future DSMs is needed in clinical practice and proposed criteria.

1. Investigate the history of how bereavement has been addressed in previous Diagnostic and Statistics Manuals (DSM).
2. Evaluate why the bereavement exclusion was removed from the diagnosis of major depressive disorder in the DSM-5.
3. Apply diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 to diagnose uncomplicated and complicated bereavement.
4. Analyze the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder and characterize how it relates to clinical practice.

Grief in Previous DSM’s

• History of how bereavement has been addressed
• Why changes were needed

Change in ICD-11

• Prolonged grief disorder
• Diagnostic criteria

Grief in the DSM-5: Changes and Diagnosis

• Elimination of the bereavement exclusion criterion for major depressive disorder
• Research regarding complicated grief
• Persistent complex bereavement disorder in the DSM-5
• How to diagnose complicated and uncomplicated bereavement using the DSM-5

A Look Ahead

• Why Prolonged Grief Disorder in the DSM is needed in clinical practice
• Proposed criteria

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