Counting Our Losses Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life

This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harris, Darcy (-)
Otros Autores: Harris, Darcy Contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis 2011.
Colección:Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; About the Editor; About the Contributors; 1 Grief From a Broader Perspective: Nonfinite Loss, Ambiguous Loss, and Chronic Sorrow; 2 The Social Context of Loss and Grief; Section I: Loss of the View of the World or Others; Section IA: Loss of Safety and Security; 3 Are You Safe? Understanding the Loss of Safety for Women and Children Who Experience Abuse; 4 Traumatic Events and Mass Disasters in the Public Sphere
  • 5 Vicarious Trauma and Professional Caregiver Stress: Occupational Hazards or Powerful Teachers?Section IB: Relational Losses; 6 Navigating Intimate Relationship Loss: When the Relationship Dies but the Person Is Still Living; 7 Adoption: A Life Begun With Loss; 8 Loss Related to Developmental Milestones: An Analysis of the Postparental Transition; 9 Grief and Caregiver Turnover in Nonfamilial Communities: Left Behind but Not Bereft; Section II: Loss of Meaning or a Sense of Justice in the World; 10 Existential Suffering: Anguish Over Our Human Condition
  • 11 Relinquishment of Certainty: A Step Beyond Terror Management12 Wrestling With the Loss of One's Faith Community; Section III: Loss of the View of Self as Worthy or Valuable; Section IIIA: Loss of Identity; 13 The Trauma of Neglect: Loss of Self; 14 We Are Not Like Other People: Identity Loss and Reconstruction Following Migration; 15 Loss of Employment; 16 Infertility and Reproductive Loss; 17 Coming Out: Intrapersonal Loss in the Acquisition of a Stigmatized Identity; Section IIIB: Loss of Functionality; 18 Chronic Degenerative Conditions, Disability, and Loss
  • 19 Loss of Functionality: Traumatic Brain Injury20 "Who Did You Used To Be?" Loss for Older Adults; Section IV: Coping With Losses in Life; 21 Adaptation, Resilience, and Growth After Loss; 22 Meaning Making and the Assumptive World in Nondeath Loss; 23 Concluding Thoughts; Index