Psychological effects and management of perinatal loss.
Serious short-term and long-term psychological sequelae may result from unresolved loss. It is now recognized that perinatal loss presents a situation where the early activation of the grief process may be prevented by the circumstances of the loss. Some theoretical aspects of the management of perinatal loss are considered together with a description of a program that has been set up to try to help to create some reality out of an unreal situation. The possible sequelae of unresolved loss are briefly reviewed.
D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000523:psychology*; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy