Prolonged grievers: a qualitative evaluation of a support group intervention.

Objective: The aim of this project was to study prolonged grievers psychosocial processes and experience during participation in a group intervention and 6-8 weeks after discontinuation. The intervention in this study was a group therapy with the aim of getting in contact with their pain and loss and confronting and working with this loss.

Methods: Data was collected by using diaries and tape-recorded interviews, analyzed with grounded theory.