Theoretical-practical Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals on Complicated Grief : a Systematic Review Based on Narrative Therapy

This article aims to present theoretical-practical guidelines for mental health professionals based on a systematic review of the literature, guided by PRISMA (Method Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Page et al. [1], which explored the contributions of narrative therapy and constructivist-narrative strategies in the integration of complicated grief into normal grief. The literature needs to demonstrate more effectiveness in primary interventions, showing better results in secondary and tertiary interventions [2,3]. This work focuses on tertiary intervention (complicated grief), especially narrative therapy [4], an extension of cognitive-behavioral therapy based on a postmodern constructionist perspective [5]. It proposes 8 theoretical guidelines -practices for intervention with people in complicated grief.