Traumatic grief treatment: case histories of 4 patients.

Background: Traumatic grief treatment is a newly developed intervention for a debilitating bereavement-related condition. Traumatic grief treatment uses imaginal and in vivo exposure techniques to target emotional distress and behavioral avoidance hypothesized to be core features of the syndrome, along with interpersonal psychotherapy techniques to engage patients and maintain rapport. The present report describes 4 case histories of patients treated in this way.