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.