APA Trustees Approve New Prolonged Grief Disorder For Diagnostic & Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has approved the inclusion of prolonged grief disorder in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), subject to approval by the Assembly, at its virtual October meeting. Criteria for prolonged grief disorder were finalized later in 2019 and approved by the DSM Steering Committee this past January. They were posted for public comment in the spring and approved by the steering committee in August. Prolonged grief disorder was included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) since the 11th version of the document was released on May 25, 2019.

Prolonged grief disorder is . . .