Beverley Raphael

TL;DR: The psychometric validity of criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is tested to enhance the detection and care of bereaved individuals at heightened risk of persistent distress and dysfunction.

TL;DR: Child and adolescent mental health problems are an important public health problem in Australia and the appropriate balance between funding provided for clinical interventions focusing on individual children and families and funding for interventions that focus on populations, requires careful study.

TL;DR: Theoretical and conceptual foundations of Traumatic Stress Syndromes: From Hiroshima to the Nazi Doctors R.J. Lifton as discussed by the authors, and Trauma Related to Torture, Detention, and Internment: Torture of a Norwegian Ship Crew L. Weisaeth.

TL;DR: The Anatomy of Bereavement as discussed by the authors describes all the stages of mourning and healing, and analyzes how the effects of loss differ at each stage of life, starting with the infant's loss of a parent, taking up the effects on adolescents of death in the family, and moving on to the losses people face in adult life and in old age, showing how the dynamics of grief and recovery vary over the course of time.

TL;DR: Although this study is the first to collect psychological distress data from an affected population during such a disease outbreak, it has limited generalisability and has potential to inform those involved in assessing the potential psychological impacts of human infectious diseases, such as pandemic influenza.