title: Grief, mourning, and pathological mourning.
abstract: An individual may present with a multitude of symptoms following an acute loss. Helping the patient go through the essential "grief work" may prevent prolonged and serious alterations in social adjustment as well as potential medical disease.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D003643:Death; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009027:Mortuary Practice; D011379:Prognosis