Traumatic and complicated grief?

A recent article from Duarte et al. focused on the assessment of child mental health problems related to exposure to violence. The authors also referred to the process of grief among children and to its potential to trigger abnormal reactions, or psychopathology. Relating to the topic, the article lacks consistency, what deserves to be pointed out. The authors mentioned (1 paragraph of section “Traumatic grief: new diagnostic category?”) that “traumatic grief...is often confused with complicated grief”, leaving one to understand that they are both separate categories. Moreover, by considering “complicated grief” as “another newly developing diagnosis” (same sentence), the article warrants confusion to escalate. Since the work of Lindemann, authors have variously, interchangeably referred to traumatic grief, complicated grief or pathologic grief as to mean the same concept: a pattern of abnormal, non-adaptive grieving reaction which is associated with present distress or disability. Literature fully supports that traumatic (or complicated or pathologic) grief can follow any kind of death, including the ones by a chronic longlasting disease of a loved one. Conversely, traumatic death can have anteceded a plea of reactions among survivors, since from the most adaptive to the (probably pathologic) less adaptive ones. Such less adaptive processes of Joao Paulo Consentino Solano 1