In "Psychotherapy of traumatic grief: A review of evidence for psychotherapeutic treatments", Jacobs and Prigerson present the concept of Traumatic Grief as a new diagnostic disorder and predict future studies will conclude a specific, tailored therapy will prove most effective in future studies. Citing a January 1997 expert panel discussion, the authors contend that controlled samples of bereved study participants consitantly demonstrated symptoms of separation distress (yearning, searching for the deceased, excessive lonliness) mirror symptoms of …showed first 75 words of 175 total…

…showed last 75 words of 175 total…panel concluded the symptoms justified diagnostic criteria for Traumatic Grief. Given these facts and Prigerson's current work to colloct data to aid in the diagnosis and definition of this disorder, the authors offer a synopsis of psychotherapeutic treaments for studies pertaining to Traumatic Grief. Since Traumatic Grief is concluded by the authors to be a type of Separation Anxiety disorder, they first reviewd clinal trials of of cognitive behavioral therapy of childeren diagnosed with SAD.