Complex and Traumatic Loss Fostering Healing and Resilience
In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals Froma Walsh presents a research-informed resilience-oriented approach to help individuals couples and families who experience profound loss. Walsh guides therapists to understand and address the impact of complicated and traumatic deaths in relational systems and social contexts. She provides core principles and illustrative examples to foster healing and adaptation; help clients mobilize vital social cultural and spiritual resources; and find pathways forward to live and love beyond loss. Essential topics include 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 in life pursuits other relationships and across generations. | Complex and Traumatic Loss Fostering Healing and Resilience