October 10th Professor Rita Rosner will hold a guest lecture on the diagnosis and treatment of Prolonged Greif in children and adolescents. Prolonged Greif Disorder is a new diagnosis in DSM-5 and ICD-11, and there is currently a large debate in the field about the utility of this diagnosis and how prolonged or complicated grief can be treated.
Prof. Rosner is a clinical psychologist and is currently the chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology at Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany. In the 1990ties, Prof Rosner studied the connections between flight, war, migration and psychological distress in the aftermath of the wars in former Yugoslavia. Current research projects focus on the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents after sexual and physical abuse, migration specific aspects of service use after childhood abuse and the treatment of Prolonged Grief Disorder.
Professor Rosner is one of the leading researchers in trauma and grief. She was a pioneer in recognizing that grief after the loss of someone may sometimes be detrimental to the lives of the bereaved.
She writes about her introduction to the field:
My experiences in the area of Prolonged Grief started about 20 years ago, when one of my patients, who was treated for PTSD related to a murder in the family, recovered from her posttraumatic symptoms but still experienced intensive grief. A literature review at that time showed that there were hardly any encouraging results from empirical studies, while at the same time a number of treatment manuals were available. Intrigued by that discrepancy I started to be interested in research on Prolonged Grief. Together with my colleagues I translated and developed measures and a treatment manual. We completed a randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) comparing our treatment with a waiting list. We studied Complicated Grief in the general population and in refugees. Currently we are finishing a RCT comparing two active treatments and we hope to be able to contribute to differential treatment selection for these patients.
This lecture is a part of “Verdensdagen for psykisk helse”
Hope to see you there!
Best,
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