Counting our losses : reflecting on change, loss, and transition in everyday life / edited by Darcy Harris.
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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New York :
Routledge,
[2011]
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| Series: | Series in death, dying, and bereavement.
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Table of Contents:
- Section I: Introduction
- Grief from a Broader Perspective : Nonfinite Loss, Ambiguous Loss, and Chronic Sorrow / Harris, Gorman
- The Social Context of Loss and Grief / Harris
- Section II: Loss of View of the World and/or Others
- Part A: Loss of Safety and Security
- Are You Safe? Loss Related to Personal Violation / Abercromby
- Traumatic Events and Mass Disasters in the Public Sphere / Modesto
- Vicarious Trauma and Professional Caregiver Stress : Occupational Hazards or Powerful Teachers? / Gorman
- Part B: Relational Losses
- Navigating Intimate Relationship Loss : When the Relationship Dies, but the Person is Still Living / Harris
- Adoption : A Life Begun with Loss / Schacter, Schacter
- Losses for Birthmothers Who Place Children for Adoption / Silverman
- Loss Related to Developmental Milestones : An Analysis of the Post Parental Transition / Lewis, Gorman
- Change and Transition in Non-Kinship Groups / Cushing
- Section III: Loss of Meaning or of a Sense of Justice in the World
- Existential Suffering : Anguish over the Human Condition / Attig
- Relinquishment of Certainty / Hunter
- Loss of Religious Community / Harvey
- Section IV: Loss of the View of Self as Worthy or Valuable
- Part A: Loss of Identity
- The Trauma of Neglect / Kauffman
- We are not like Other People : Identity Loss and Reconstruction Following Migration / Sawicki
- Loss of Employment / Harris, Isenor
- Infertility and Reproductive Loss / Harris
- Coming Out : Intrapersonal Loss in the Acquisition of a Stigmatized Identity / Scott
- Part B: Loss of Functionality
- Chronic, Degenerative Conditions and Loss / Gorman
- Traumatic Brain Injury / Kosminsky
- Who did You Used to Be? Loss for Older Adults / Langer
- Section V: Coping with Losses in Life
- Adaptation, Resilience, and Growth after Loss / Gorman
- Meaning-Making and the Assumptive World in Non-Death Loss / Harris
- Integrating Loss in Everyday Life / Harris.