Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781462553020 ISBN-10: 1462553028 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 1st Author: Walsh, Froma Doody's Expert Review    Score: 93 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Ileana  Ungureanu,  MD, PhD, LMFT  (Adler School of Professional Psychology) Description This book covers important topics on working with complex grief and loss in family systems, including individuals, couples, and families. Purpose The book is meant to address the gap in professional literature on working with grief and loss other than at the individual level. It is research-based and resiliency-focused in its approach and looks at relational aspects in families and other systems related to issues of loss that include death, divorce, collective trauma, and transgenerational grief. The book more than meets these worthy objectives. Audience The audience of the book is a variety of mental professionals including marriage and family therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, pastoral counselors, other healthcare workers dealing with grief, but also for graduate students preparing to help those affected by loss. This book should be on the shelves of any mental health clinician and a required textbook in any graduate program as grief is a universal experience that touches us in profound ways. The author is an accomplished, nationally, and internationally recognized scholar on loss and grief and resilience in family systems and a keynote speaker at national and international professional conferences. Features The compassionate, resiliency-informed voice of its author enhances this research-based, thorough analysis of the impact of loss on family systems. It addresses both more general loss topics including death of a loved one, suicide, and divorce as well as more specific topics such as the loss of a beloved pet, stigmatized losses, transgenerational transmission of loss, and collective trauma, looking at individual aspects as well as systemic aspects of mourning. Assessment In her characteristic brilliant way, the author has gifted us with another excellent book on grief and loss, at a time when we need it most, when viruses and wars leave tears and sadness on their paths. Her work helps clinicians to better understand grief processes and their impact on the individual, couples, families, or larger systems. Written with professional authority and personal compassion, the theoretical concepts come to life through case examples from years of experience in helping people live lovingly beyond loss. Building on the author's excellent previous books on loss, Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd Edition, McGoldrick and Walsh (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), this work is a needed addition to the professional literature on grief, in a world profoundly impacted by loss during a few years of a global pandemic. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? N/A 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 3 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 4 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.