Trauma and Emergency Medicine

Commentary Open Access

Manualized trauma-informed bereavement groups after traumatic loss: from individual psychotherapy to a structured group protocol integrating art-based containment

Kristina Ritter , Thomas Stompe

Background: Traumatic bereavement frequently combines grief-specific separation distress with trauma-related intrusions, avoidance, and dysregulation. A subgroup of patients develops persistent impairment consistent with prolonged grief disorder (PGD).This commentary outlines the clinical rationale and conceptual foundations of a manualized group program for bereavement after traumatic loss, integrating psychotherapeutic structure with art-based containment strategies.

Trauma Emerg Med, 2026, Volume 3, Issue 1, p1-4 | DOI: 10.46439/Trauma.3.009

Commentary Open Access

Beyond depression and dementia: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus as a neuropsychiatric mimic in the emergency department

Kenneth V. Iserson

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a neurological disorder and one of the few potentially reversible causes of dementia and disability in older adults. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis reports that apathy occurs in roughly 69% and depression in about 30% of affected patients. 

Trauma Emerg Med, 2026, Volume 3, Issue 1, p5-11 | DOI: 10.46439/Trauma.3.010