Grief responses differ in severity and duration between individuals. For some individuals, grief can lead to psychological distress, including prolonged grief disorder. Understanding the differences in responses to loss is important to develop tailored care plans for the bereaved individual. Heeke (2023) and colleagues conducted a systematic review to understand the state of research using latent class analysis – a person-centered statistical approach – on prolonged grief disorder and other indicators of mental health in bereaved adults. The authors found that several identified types of latent classes were comparable across studies. Most studies identified a resilient class (i.e., low symptomatology across various syndromes) and a combined symptom class (i.e., medium to high symptomatology across various syndromes). Some studies identified a prolonged grief disorder only class, suggesting that prolonged grief disorder symptoms are the primary and only symptomatic response to loss for a subset of individuals. Read more…
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