Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss
By Pauline Boss.
Description
All losses are touched with ambiguity. Yet those who suffer losses without finality bear a particular burden.Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of ambiguous loss, guides clinicians in the task of building resilience in clients who face the trauma of loss without resolution. Boss describes 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. In Part I readers are introduced to the concept of ambiguous loss and shown how such losses relate to concepts of the f...
ISBN(s)
0393704491, 9780393704495
