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Pauline Boss - Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss - 9780393704495 - V9780393704495
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Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss

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Description for Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss Hardback. All losses are touched with ambiguity. Yet those who suffer losses without finality bear a particular burden. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MQT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.

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 family, definitions of trauma, and capacities for resilience. In Part II Boss leads readers through the various aspects ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393704495
SKU
V9780393704495
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About Pauline Boss
Pauline Boss, PhD, is emeritus professor at University of Minnesota. She is known worldwide for developing the theory of ambiguous loss and as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of family stress management. Dr. Boss is the author of Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss and The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic ... Read more

Reviews for Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss
"The author’s many years of clinical experience in this area will help to educate and guide clinicians who encounter the growing number of clients who have experienced ambiguous loss."
The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "In a dominant culture that denies death and marginalizes those most closely affected by it, the work of Pauline Boss is indeed welcome....[D]efies many ... Read more

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