Clinical sources and practical guidance
Clinical information prioritizes recognized health authorities, professional organizations and specialist research resources. These include the NHS, the American Psychiatric Association, NIMH and Columbia’s Center for Prolonged Grief. Bereavement organizations provide additional information on lived circumstances and support routes.
Practical suggestions in the articles are options for consideration, not individualized treatment instructions. Readers may need different support because of health, culture, age, safety, disability or access. A source about one treatment or population is not treated as proof that every programme using similar language is effective.
What dates mean
A source-check date records when the cited material was checked for this edition. An update date records a change to the page. Neither means that all possible research was reviewed, that a provider was inspected or that an individual clinician medically reviewed the article. A named reviewer will only be identified if an actual review and permission to identify that person exist.
Provider information has a different evidential role
Provider websites are used to establish what an organization publicly describes about its locations and services. They are not independent evidence of superior clinical outcomes. Claims about licensing, staffing, availability and treatment suitability need direct verification before admission.
AI-assisted preparation
AI-assisted drafting is used to organize and write material. This does not substitute for professional clinical judgment. The publication aims to make uncertainty visible, link factual claims to useful sources and avoid invented clinicians, patient stories, inspection claims or success rates.
Corrections and review
Readers can submit the page address and a description of a factual, link or accessibility issue through the corrections form. The form is for editorial feedback and is not monitored as a crisis service. Revisions should address the specific error and, where necessary, related pages using the same information.
Content boundaries
Articles do not tell readers to start, stop or change medication independently. Urgent danger is directed to local emergency services. Bereavement is not automatically presented as illness, and a diagnosis is not inferred from the duration of sadness alone.