Non-Death Loss and Grief : Context and Clinical Implications

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Dedication
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction
1 Non-Death Loss and Grief: Laying the Foundation
Part I The Social Context of Loss and Grief
	2 Disenfranchised Grief and Non-Death Losses
	3 Social Death
	4 Discrimination, Oppression, and Loss
	5 Mourning in Trump’s America: An Existential Account of Political Grief
Part II Understanding and Treating the Unresolved Grief of Ambiguous Loss: A Research-Based Theory to Guide Therapists and Counselors
	6 Losses of Birth Mothers in the Adoption Triad
	7 Living in a Liminal Space: The Experience of Caring for a Spouse with Alzheimer’s Disease
	8 Grief and Loss in Addictions
	9 Ambiguous Loss in Coming Out and Trans*itioning
	10 Supporting the Families of Missing People: More Than an Investigation
Part III Nonfinite Loss: Living with Ongoing Loss and Grief
	11 Nonfinite and Cumulative Loss in Foster Care
	12 The Loss of Loneliness in Emerging Adults
	13 Families’ and Children’s Experiences of Loss in the Family Justice System
	14 Midlife Children Caring for Their Aging Parents
Part IV Chronic Sorrow
	15 Parenting a Child With a Serious Disability
	16 Environmental Grief
	17 Grief and Mental Illness
Part V Tangible and Intangible Losses
	18 The Threshold of Shattered Dreams
	19 Sexual Assault, Loss, and the Journey to Justice
	20 Loss and Forced Displacement
	21 Loss of Love: When the Relationship Is What Dies
Part VI Pulling It All Together—Change, Loss, and Transition
	22 Where’s the Grief in Non-Death Loss Research?
	23 Supporting People Through Living Losses
	24 Meaning-Making After Non-Death Losses
	Conclusion: Impermanence, Change, and the Dynamic Experience of Living
Index