title: Anticipatory grief: a psychosocial concept reconsidered.
abstract: Formerly anticipatory grief was viewed as a potential coping mechanism for a prospective loss. More recently it has been studied in preventive psychiatry as a determinant of the severity of post-mortem grief. The authors in a critical analysis of methodological and theoretical inconsistencies recommend a reconsideration of the concept within a psychosocial context.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D003645:Death, Sudden; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged