title: Religious psychotherapy as management of bereavement.
abstract: This study was aimed at determining the effect of psychotherapy in patients in bereavement. Fifteen patients in a control group were given brief psychotherapy and 15 study group patients received psychotherapy with a religious perspective. The patients in the study group showed consistently significant improvements as compared with the control group at the end of 6 months. The results indicate that highly religious patients with grief and bereavement tend to improve faster when a religious psychotherapy is added to a cognitive-behaviour approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan.
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Azhar
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Varma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology