title: Grief following childhood loss of a parent.
abstract: A distinction is drawn between incomplete grief and grief arising from maturational events such as life-cycle milestones. Treating maturational grief as though it were incomplete grief or using expressions of maturational grief as a sign of important childhood roots for a patient's current problems is likely to be unproductive.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012649:Self Concept