Embracing Loss Together

Embracing Loss Together offers foundational education and clinical applications for professionals who support families through chronic illness, end-of-life care, death, and bereavement. Integrating systemic-based approaches with prominent grief theories, this book offers bereavement professionals multiple frameworks from which to understand relational dynamics. Distinguished scholars and clinicians define and contextualize relational adjustment and relational resilience in times of loss, explore multiple factors that contribute to relational resilience in couples and parent-child relationships, and present case examples that illustrate systemic interventions of grief therapy for varied relationship types across the lifespan. Bereavement professionals and clinicians will learn to conceptualize grief therapy from a systemic perspective, resolve differences in grief coping styles, and implement dialogical strategies that enable family members to co-construct meaning about their shared grief.