Living with and supporting loved ones through their severe mental illness often comes with serious feelings of loss. This loss may not fit with traditional models of grief due to its ambiguity.
In this presentation, Jerri Clark describes ambiguous loss and shares strategies families can use to cope with this adversity.
Video Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Outline
01:11 TAC's Mission and Me
02:57 DJ Jaffe
03:59 Dr. E Fuller Torrey
04:35 What is Severe Mental Illness (SMI)
05:10 SMI Data
06:05 What is an Ambiguous Loss?
07:28 Typical Loss
08:05 Jerri's Ambiguous Loss
09:32 What Makes These Losses So Hard?
10:09 The Ambiguity!
11:29 A Loss From Age, Accident, Illness
12:40 Jewish Tradition of Sitting Shiva
13:37 Dr. Pauline Boss (who coined the term ambiguous loss)
14:26 Grief is Normal
16:08 Ambiguous Loss and SMI
17:34 Pause for Reflection
18:26 Top 6 Coping Strategies Overview
19:03 #1 Find Meaning
21:06 #2 Adjust Mastery
23:08 #3 Reconstruct Identity
24:01 #4 Normalize Ambivalence
26:35 #5 Revise Attachment
28:14 #6 Discover New Hope
29:06 Play With Ambiguity
30:26 Stay in Touch With TAC
30:56 Thank You!
28 июл 2024