AUTHOR=Gesi Camilla , Carmassi Claudia , Cerveri Giancarlo , Carpita Barbara , Cremone Ivan Mirko , Dell'Osso Liliana 

TITLE=Complicated Grief: What to Expect After the Coronavirus Pandemic

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00489

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00489

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the worst public health crises in a century, with an expected amount of deaths of several millions worldwide and an even bigger number of bereaved people left behind. Despite the consequences of this crisis are still unknown, a significant number of bereaved people will arguably develop Complicated Grief (CG) in the aftermath this emergency. If the current pandemic is unprecedented, the grief following the coronavirus outbreak is likely to share features with griefs related to natural disasters and after Intensive Care Unit (ICU) treatment. The aim of this paper is to review the most prominent literature on CG after natural disasters, as well as after diseases requesting ICU treatment. Such body of evidence may be useful for handling bereaved people during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and for drawing clinical attention to people at risk for CG.