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.

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"With clinical acumen and insight, Walsh explores the deeply personal, intricately social process of grieving life-altering loss and reexamining one’s life narrative in its wake....This book is the magnum opus of one of our field’s most fertile, sophisticated, and visionary minds. I recommend it enthusiastically to any practitioner with a passion for accompanying grieving families with clarity and creativity as they find new meaning in a changed world."

  — Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Director, Portland Institute for Loss and Transition

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Froma Walsh, MSW, PhD, is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Family Health.