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