num_pages: 280
description: Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of ambiguous loss,guides clinicians in the task of building resilience in clients who facethe trauma of loss without resolution. Boss describes a concretetherapeutic approach that is at once directive and open to the complexcontexts in which people find meaning and discover hope in the faceof ambiguous losses.In Part I readers are introduced to the concept of ambiguous loss andshown how such losses relate to concepts of the family, definitionsof trauma, and capacities for resilience. In Part II Boss leads readersthrough the various aspects of and target points for working withthose suffering ambiguous loss. From meaning to mastery, identity toambivalence, attachment to hope&amp;ndash;these chapters cover key states ofmind for those undergoing ambiguous loss. The Epilogue addressesthe therapist directly and his or her own ambiguous losses. Closingthe circle of the therapeutic process, Boss shows therapists howfundamental their own experiences of loss are to their own clinicalwork.In Loss, Trauma, and Resilience, Boss provides the therapeutic insight and wisdom that aids mental health professionals in not "going for closure," but rather building strength and acceptance of ambiguity. What readers will find is a concrete therapeutic approach that is at once directive and open to the complex contexts in which people find meaning and discover hope in the face of ambiguous losses.
language: English
title: Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss
titlecomplete: Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss
genres: Counselling, Psychology, School, Self Help, Personal Development, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company