Loss, trauma, and resilience : therapeutic work with ambiguous loss / Pauline Boss.

Foreword / Carlos Sluzki
Preface
How to read this book
Coming full circle
Introduction : Loss and ambiguity
The contextual view
Ambiguous loss and traumatic stress
The ambiguous loss model
History of the research base
The conceptual base : stress and resilience
The training
Needed research
Conclusion
pt. 1. The developing theory of ambiguous loss
ch. 1. The psychological family
LInking the psychological family with stress and resilience
The psychological family and diversity
Theoretical assumptions
The ambiguity of absence and presence
Conclusion
ch. 2. Trauma and stress
Expanding the repertoire for treatment
Stress and trauma
PTSD : a need for caution and collaboration with family therapy
Critical incident stress debriefing : a need for caution and collaboration with family therapy
Treatment and intervention.

ch. 3. Resilience and health
Definitions
History and research update for clinicians
Cautions about resiliency
Principles for therapeutic treatment and preventive intervention
Case study
pt. 2. Therapeutic goals for treating ambiguous loss
ch. 4. Finding meaning
The search for meaning
The phenomenology of meaning
What helps find meaning?
What hinders?
Therapy methods and guidelines for finding meaning
Conclusion
ch. 5. Tempering mastery
What is mastery?
Theory base
What helps temper mastery?
What hinders?
Therapy methods and guidelines for tempering mastery
Conclusion
ch. 6. Reconstructing identity
Identity and ambiguous loss
Social construction as a theory base
What helps reconstruct identity?
What hinders?
Therapy methods and guidelines for reconstructing identity
Conclusion.

ch. 7. Normalizing ambivalence
Ambiguity and ambivalence
How does normalizing ambivalence relate to resilience?
Theory base
What helps normalize ambivalence?
What hinders?
Therapy methods and guidelines for normalizing ambivalence
Conclusion
ch. 8. Revising attachment
Attachment and ambiguity
Theoretical considerations of environmental problems and context
What helps revise attachment?
What hinders?
Therapy methods and guidelines for revising attachment
Conclusion
ch. 9. Discovering hope
Hope and ambiguous loss
Theory base
When hope helps
When hope hinders
Therapy methods and guidelines for discovering new hope
Conclusion
Epilogue : The self of the therapist
The place to start
Increasing our own comfort with ambiguity and loss
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
References
Index.