Cognitive behaviour therapy may be more helpful than mindfulness for people with long-term grief

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Persistent longing for a lost loved one can bring significant emotional pain and affect people's health, and now Australian research has found that people with prolonged grief disorder may benefit more from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) than mindfulness programs. In a randomised clinical trial of 100 adults with prolonged grief disorder, the researchers found that while both types of therapy reduced grief severity, those who received the grief-focused CBT showed greater improvements than those who had grief-focused mindfulness therapy. The group who received the CBT also had greater reductions in depression.