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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| How to Read This Book | |
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| Coming Full Circle | |
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| Introduction: Loss and Ambiguity | |
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| The Contextual View | |
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| Ambiguous Loss and Traumatic Stress | |
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| The Ambiguous Loss Model | |
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| History of the Research Base | |
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| The Conceptual Base: Stress and Resilience | |
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| The Training | |
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| Needed Research | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Developing Theory of Ambiguous Loss | |
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| The Psychological Family | |
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| Linking the Psychological Family With Stress and Resilience | |
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| The Psychological Family and Diversity | |
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| Theoretical Assumptions | |
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| The Ambiguity of Absence and Presence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Trauma and Stress | |
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| Expanding the Repertoire for Treatment | |
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| Stress and Trauma | |
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| PTSD: A Need for Caution and Collaboration With Family Therapy | |
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| Critical Incident Stress Debriefing: A Need for Caution and Collaboration With Family Therapy | |
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| Treatment and Intervention | |
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| Resilience and Health | |
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| Definitions | |
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| History and Research Update for Clinicians | |
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| Cautions About Resiliency | |
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| Principles for Therapeutic Treatment and Preventive Intervention | |
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| Case Study | |
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| Therapeutic Goals for Treating Ambiguous Loss | |
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| Finding Meaning | |
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| The Search for Meaning | |
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| The Phenomenology of Meaning | |
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| What Helps Find Meaning? | |
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| What Hinders? | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Finding Meaning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Tempering Mastery | |
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| What is Mastery? | |
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| Theory Base | |
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| What Helps Temper Mastery? | |
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| What Hinders? | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Tempering Mastery | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reconstructing Identity | |
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| Identity and Ambiguous Loss | |
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| Social Construction as a Theory Base | |
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| What Helps Reconstruct Identity? | |
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| What Hinders? | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Reconstructing Identity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Normalizing Ambivalence | |
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| Ambiguity and Ambivalence | |
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| How Does Normalizing Ambivalence Relate to Resilience? | |
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| Theory Base | |
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| What Helps Normalize Ambivalence? | |
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| What Hinders? | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Normalizing Ambivalence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revising Attachment | |
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| Attachment and Ambiguity | |
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| Theoretical Considerations of Environmental Problems and Context | |
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| What Helps Revise Attachment? | |
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| What Hinders? | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Revising Attachment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discovering Hope | |
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| Hope and Ambiguous Loss | |
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| Theory Base | |
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| When Hope Helps | |
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| When Hope Hinders | |
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| Therapy Methods and Guidelines for Discovering New Hope | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue: The Self of the Therapist | |
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| The Place To Start | |
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| Increasing Our Own Comfort with Ambiguity and Loss | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |