A Cognitive Attachment Model of prolonged grief: integrating attachments, memory, and identity.

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Summary

A model of PG is proposed that integrates processes of attachment, self-identity, and autobiographical memory and places emphasis on how one's sense of identity influences yearning, memories of the deceased, appraisals, and coping strategies, to maintain a focus on the loss.

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review
Published
2013-08-01
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Keywords

Psychology, Optimal distinctiveness theory, Autobiographical memory, Grief, Dysfunctional family

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