Grief and Bereavement 47 Christopher Hall Contents 1 Introduction ..................................................................... 800 2 Theoretical Perspectives ....................................................... 800 3 Continuing Bonds .............................................................. 803 4 Meaning Reconstruction Following Loss ..................................... 803 4.1 Complications of Bereavement .................................................. 804 5 Prolonged Grief Disorder and the DSM-5 .................................... 806 5.1 Grief Interventions ............................................................... 806 6 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Complicated Grief .............. 807 7 Family Focused Grief Therapy ................................................ 807 8 Complicated Grief Treatment ................................................. 808 9 Meaning Reconstruction Approaches to Grief Therapy .................... 808 10 Online Support .................................................................. 809 10.1 Palliative Care and Bereavement Support ....................................... 809 11 Conclusion ....................................................................... 812 References .............................................................................. 812 Abstract In spite of grief and bereavement being funda- mental to high-quality palliative care, grief and bereavement care is often under-resourced and haphazard and fails to reflect contempo- rary evidence. This chapter will examine a number of approaches to evidence-informed bereavement care and explore some of the seismic shifts that have taken place in our understanding and response to the grieving and bereaved. The chapter will conclude with an examination of complications in bereave- ment and what might be considered best prac- tice in providing bereavement support in the palliative setting. C. Hall (*) Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, Mulgrave, VIC, Australia e-mail: c.hall@grief.org.au © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 R. D. MacLeod, L. Van den Block (eds.), Textbook of Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77740-5_33 799