Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss

by Pauline G. Boss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393704491
• ISBN13: 9780393704495
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"