Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience

This guide provides a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who experience profound loss, covering topics such as death of a spouse, parent, child, or sibling, ambiguous and disenfranchised losses, death by violence, suicide, or overdose, collective trauma, and reverberations of past loss.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 28 August 2023
Publisher: Guilford Publications

In this comprehensive and indispensable practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh offers a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to assist individuals, couples, and families who are grappling with profound loss. Walsh equips therapists with the knowledge and skills to comprehend and address the profound impact of complicated and traumatic deaths within relational systems and social contexts. She provides essential principles and illustrative examples to promote healing and adaptation, empower clients to mobilize vital social, cultural, and spiritual resources, and guide them toward finding pathways to live and love beyond the depths of loss. Key topics covered include the death of a spouse, parent, child, or sibling; ambiguous and disenfranchised losses; deaths caused by violence, suicide, or overdose; collective trauma; and the reverberations of past loss in various aspects of life, including relationships, career pursuits, and across generations. By delving into these profound and complex issues, mental health professionals can better support their clients on their journey of healing and growth.

Weight: 416g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781462553020