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Loss, trauma, and resilience : therapeutic work with ambiguous loss / Pauline Boss.
Van Pelt Library BF575.D35 B68 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boss, Pauline.
- Series:
- Norton professional book
- A Norton professional book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loss (Psychology).
- Grief.
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2006]
- Contents:
- How to Read This Book xix
- Coming Full Circle xx
- Introduction: Loss and Ambiguity 1
- The Contextual View 2
- Ambiguous Loss and Traumatic Stress 4
- The Ambiguous Loss Model 7
- History of the Research Base 8
- The Conceptual Base: Stress and Resilience 11
- The Training 13
- Needed Research 20
- Part I The Developing Theory of Ambiguous Loss 23
- Chapter 1 The Psychological Family 25
- Linking the Psychological Family With Stress and Resilience 26
- The Psychological Family and Diversity 28
- Theoretical Assumptions 30
- The Ambiguity of Absence and Presence 32
- Chapter 2 Trauma and Stress 35
- Expanding the Repertoire for Treatment 36
- Stress and Trauma 38
- PTSD: A Need for Caution and Collaboration With Family Therapy 40
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing: A Need for Caution and Collaboration With Family Therapy 42
- Treatment and Intervention 43
- Chapter 3 Resilience and Health 47
- History and Research Update for Clinicians 50
- Cautions About Resiliency 58
- Principles for Therapeutic Treatment and Preventive Intervention 59
- Part II Therapeutic Goals for Treating Ambiguous Loss 71
- Chapter 4 Finding Meaning 73
- The Search for Meaning 74
- The Phenomenology of Meaning 77
- What Helps Find Meaning? 83
- What Hinders? 83
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Finding Meaning 87
- Chapter 5 Tempering Mastery 98
- What is Mastery? 99
- Theory Base 101
- What Helps Temper Mastery? 103
- What Hinders? 103
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Tempering Mastery 105
- Chapter 6 Reconstructing Identity 115
- Identity and Ambiguous Loss 115
- Social Construction as a Theory Base 122
- What Helps Reconstruct Identity? 124
- What Hinders? 124
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Reconstructing Identity 128
- Chapter 7 Normalizing Ambivalence 143
- Ambiguity and Ambivalence 144
- How Does Normalizing Ambivalence Relate to Resilience? 145
- Theory Base 146
- What Helps Normalize Ambivalence? 148
- What Hinders? 148
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Normalizing Ambivalence 149
- Chapter 8 Revising Attachment 162
- Attachment and Ambiguity 163
- Theoretical Considerations of Environmental Problems and Context 167
- What Helps Revise Attachment? 168
- What Hinders? 168
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Revising Attachment 169
- Chapter 9 Discovering Hope 177
- Hope and Ambiguous Loss 179
- Theory Base 180
- When Hope Helps 182
- When Hope Hinders 183
- Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Discovering New Hope 184
- Epilogue: The Self of the Therapist 197
- The Place To Start 199
- Increasing Our Own Comfort with Ambiguity and Loss 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393704491
- OCLC:
- 61694912
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