{"id":232674,"date":"2026-03-06T01:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/group-vs-individual-grief-focused-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-older-adults"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:36:54","slug":"group-vs-individual-grief-focused-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/group-vs-individual-grief-focused-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-older-adults","title":{"rendered":"Group Vs Individual Grief-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/group-vs-individual-grief-focused-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-older-adults2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a randomized clinical trial including older bereaved adults, group-format grief-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (ProlongedGriefDisorder) was noninferior to individual therapy for reducing symptoms of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety at 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>Both formats produced large reductions in symptom burden, suggesting either delivery method is effective for older adults seeking treatment after loss.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This study examines whether cognitive behavioral therapy delivered in a group format is noninferior to cognitive behavioral therapy delivered in an individual format in reducing prolonged grief disorder symptoms in older adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a randomized clinical trial including older bereaved adults, group-format grief-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (ProlongedGriefDisorder) was noninferior to individual therapy for reducing symptoms of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety at 6 months. Both formats produced large reductions in symptom burden, suggesting either delivery method is effective for older adults seeking treatment after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}