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Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience de Froma Walsh

Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience

Autor Froma Walsh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2023

Bazându-ne pe cercetări recente din psihologia clinică și studii de reziliență sistemică, observăm că abordarea pierderii a evoluat dincolo de modelul etapelor liniare ale doliului. În Complex and Traumatic Loss, Froma Walsh propune un cadru clinic riguros pentru intervenția în cazuri de deces traumatic sau pierderi care destabilizează sistemele familiale. Apreciem modul în care lucrarea se distanțează de simptomatologia individuală, concentrându-se pe modul în care familiile și comunitățile pot mobiliza resurse sociale și spirituale pentru a-și reconstrui narațiunea de viață.

Structura volumului este una progresivă, de la fundamentele teoretice ale suferinței umane către aplicații clinice specifice. Partea a doua analizează pierderea pe parcursul ciclului de viață familial — de la decesul unui partener la cel al unui copil — în timp ce secțiunea finală abordează teme sensibile precum pierderile stigmatizate (suicid, supradoză) și trauma colectivă. Pe linia clinică a lucrării Handbook of Traumatic Loss de Neil Thompson, dar cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe reziliența sistemică și pe dinamica transgenerațională, acest titlu oferă instrumente practice pentru gestionarea „ecourilor” trecutului în relațiile actuale.

Descoperim aici o continuitate firească a operei autoarei; dacă în Normal Family Processes Froma Walsh definea funcționarea sănătoasă, iar în Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy explora conexiunea cu sacrul, noul volum sintetizează aceste teme pentru a oferi un ghid de formare esențial. Tonul este unul clinic, dar empatic, oferind studii de caz care ilustrează cum se pot găsi căi de adaptare chiar și în fața unor evenimente catastrofale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781462553020
ISBN-10: 1462553028
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Guilford Publications
Colecția Guilford Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru psihoterapeuți, asistenți sociali și specialiști în sănătate mintală care lucrează cu trauma. Cititorul câștigă un model de intervenție bazat pe dovezi care nu doar tratează simptomele doliului, ci activează capacitatea de refacere a întregului sistem familial. Este un instrument valoros pentru a înțelege pierderile ambigue sau stigmatizate, oferind strategii concrete pentru a ajuta clienții să integreze pierderea și să își continue viața.

Despre autor

Froma Walsh, M.S.W., Ph.D., este o figură centrală în terapia sistemică familială, fiind profesor emerit la School of Social Service Administration și în Departamentul de Psihiatrie al Universității din Chicago. Co-fondatoare și co-director al Chicago Center for Family Health, Walsh a revoluționat domeniul prin introducerea conceptului de reziliență familială. Expertiza sa este recunoscută internațional, fiind autoarea unor lucrări fundamentale care integrează dimensiunile sociale, culturale și spirituale în practica clinică. Cariera sa este dedicată dezvoltării unor modele de intervenție care să sprijine familiile aflate în situații de vulnerabilitate extremă.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Cuprins

I. Overview
1. Facing Death and Loss: The Human Predicament
2. Working with Complex and Traumatic Loss: A Resilience-Oriented Systemic Approach
3. Cultural and Spiritual Influences in Suffering, Healing, and Resilience
II. Death, Dying, and Loss: Individual, Couple, and Family Challenges
4. Approaching the End of Life: Challenges and Resilience
5. In the Wake of Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience
6. Loss Across the Family Life Cycle: Death of a Spouse, Parent, Child, Sibling
III. Complex and Traumatic Loss Situations
7. Ambiguous, Unacknowledged, and Stigmatized Losses
8. Loss of a Cherished Companion Animal
9. Violent and Traumatic Deaths: Fatal Accident, Homicide, Overdose, Suicide
10. Addressing Complex Relational and Transgenerational Dynamics: Reverberations from the Past
11. Collective Trauma and Loss: Fostering Individual, Family, and Community Resilience
12. The Shared Human Experience of Loss: Professional and Personal Influences in Our Therapeutic Engagement
Appendix: Suggested Resources and Readings
References
Index

Notă biografică

Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD, is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Family Health. Dr. Walsh is an internationally respected clinical scholar and a foremost authority on family resilience. Integrating developmental, relational, sociocultural, and spiritual perspectives, her resilience-oriented systemic approach with individuals, couples, and families fosters healing and positive adaptation. She is past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and past president of the American Family Therapy Academy. Dr. Walsh is the recipient of many honors for distinguished contributions to theory, research, and practice, including the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association and awards from the American Family Therapy Academy, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Society for Pastoral Counseling Research. She is a frequent speaker and consultant internationally, and her books have been translated into many languages.

Recenzii

"With clinical acumen and insight, Walsh explores the deeply personal, intricately social process of grieving life-altering loss and reexamining one’s life narrative in its wake. Moving beyond the common preoccupation with stages and symptoms of grief, Walsh provides a far subtler view of the significance of loss for family systems. She seamlessly weaves theory and practice to conceptualize and promote resilience in the face of often traumatic life transitions. The result is a treasure trove of clear clinical guidelines, satisfyingly nuanced and complex case studies, and coherent synthesis of research and practice wisdom. This book is the magnum opus of one of our field’s most fertile, sophisticated, and visionary minds. I recommend it enthusiastically to any practitioner with a passion for accompanying grieving families with clarity and creativity as they find new meaning in a changed world."--Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition

"This book is a triumph. Walsh is a wise guide for clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families suffering from the death of loved ones. Based on the latest research, and weighing in on current debates, the book draws on decades of clinical practice related to loss and bereavement. Walsh clearly demonstrates how a resilience-oriented systemic approach can help people 'bounce' forward in their lives, even in the face of complicated and traumatic losses. While covering an enormous scope of tragic circumstances, the book is nonetheless hopeful. Walsh’s conviction that resilience is possible gleams on every page. The book is a gem; it will be a go-to resource for years to come."--Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, Director, The Witness to Witness Program, Migrant Clinicians Network

"It seems strange to call a book uplifting when the topic is loss and excruciating grief--but this stunning book shines new possibilities of hope and healing on the heaviness of suffering. In this brilliant, beautifully crafted, and sensitive work, Walsh empowers the reader with crucial concepts and essential practice applications. Universals of grief are attended to, but so are the nuances of sociocultural locations of race, class, religion, or migration. This indispensable resource will be invaluable for courses and clinical training. Professionals will return to it again and again for guidance in helping others, and to cope with their own natural avoidance in attending to unbearable losses.”--Celia Jaes Falicov, PhD, author of Latino Families in Therapy

"Walsh brings a lifetime of clinical wisdom and scholarship to this profound discussion of loss, its vicissitudes, and its relation to treatment. She holds both a keen awareness of the effects of traumatic loss and a strong belief in the healing power of relational resilience. The book provides a clear understanding of varieties of loss and how to work with each of them in therapy. It is wonderfully written, moving seamlessly between conceptual information, clinical vignettes, and poignant personal stories. Anchored in a systemic view, the book transcends schools of psychotherapy to speak to how to be therapeutic in the presence of loss--and, ultimately, to the heart of being human. Add this to your list of top ten books about the practice of psychotherapy. It should be a core text in every psychotherapy graduate program."--Jay L. Lebow, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Professor and Senior Therapist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University

"Walsh writes pointedly about the need to see grief as a varied and complex adaptation to loss, rather than as a binary of normal versus disordered. She focuses on applying therapy based on human resilience and growth. This book will enlighten students as well as veteran therapists who may not be aware of the many recent updates in this field."--Pauline Boss, PhD, author of Ambiguous Loss-This book is well-written and a pleasure to read despite the heavy content. Within each chapter, the material is clearly organized. The text is accessible and comprehensible, with every complicated idea broken down manageably….Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience is a useful source of insight for professionals and advanced students who may clinically encounter those experiencing challenges surrounding death of all kinds. Notwithstanding the existing collection of grief books for clinicians, the current book anchors on resilience, providing a specific layer of understanding to bring into counseling spaces. One can expect after reading this book, they may better understand grief and can help clients forge a way forward ….Essential for all who wish to sensitively treat people dealing with loss.--Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 4/12/2024ƒƒThis book should be on the shelves of any mental health clinician and a required textbook in any graduate program as grief is a universal experience that touches us in profound ways. The author is an accomplished, nationally and internationally recognized scholar on loss and grief and resilience in family systems….In her characteristic brilliant way, the author has gifted us with another excellent book on grief and loss, at a time when we need it most, when viruses and wars leave tears and sadness in their paths. Her work helps clinicians to better understand grief processes and their impact on the individual, couples, families, or larger systems. Written with professional authority and personal compassion, the theoretical concepts come to life through case examples from years of experience in helping people live lovingly beyond loss….This work is a needed addition to the professional literature on grief.--Doody's Review Service, 3/29/2024