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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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