Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and personal roots (i.e., sources) from which these orientations and strategies flow. Thus, an appropriate way to preface this book is to talk first of its roots, its beginnings. In the mid 1980s there emerged in some quarters the sense that it was time for family studies to take stock of itself. A goal was thus set to write a book that, like Janus, would face both backward and forward a book that would give readers both a perspec tive on the past...
Origins We call this book on theoretical orientations and methodological strategies in family studies a sourcebook because it details the social and p...
Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of ambiguous loss, guides clinicians in the task of building resilience in clients who face the trauma of loss without resolution. Boss describes a concrete therapeutic approach that is at once directive and open to the complex contexts in which people find meaning and discover hope in the face of ambiguous losses. In Part I readers are introduced to the concept of ambiguous loss and shown how such losses relate to concepts of the family, definitions of trauma, and capacities for resilience. In Part II Boss leads readers through the...
Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of ambiguous loss, guides clinicians in the task of building resilience in clients who face the...
Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart? Can a family's beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerability to stress? And most importantly, can family stress be prevented? In this Second Edition, Pauline Boss continues to explore both the larger context surrounding families and stress and the inner context, which includes perceptions and meanings. The author emphasizes the need for a more general contextual model of family stress that may be applicable to a wider diversity of people and families as well as a wider variety of stresses and...
Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart? Can a family's beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerabilit...
Eine Demenzerkrankung ist nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern insbesondere für die Angehörigen eine starke Belastung. Oft übernehmen sie jahrelang die Pflege einer geliebten Person, die physisch zwar präsent, psychisch aber abwesend ist. Gerade dieser "uneindeutige Verlust" (Ambiguous Loss), das "Da und doch so fern"-Sein, ist schwer zu verkraften. Mit Empathie und didaktischem Geschick geht die Psychotherapeutin Pauline Boss auf die Anliegen der Angehörigen ein und hilft ihnen zu akzeptieren, dass sie nicht alles unter Kontrolle haben müssen und auch negative Gefühle und...
Eine Demenzerkrankung ist nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern insbesondere für die Angehörigen eine starke Belastung. Oft übernehmen sie...
