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Loss without a clear resolution can be particularly painful. laflor/iStock via Getty Images Plus

June 23, 2023

Processing and grieving an ongoing loss – such as a child with a devastating injury or disability – does not fit neatly into traditional models of grief

Brad Phillips, West Virginia University

Letting go of what could have been is a critical step in handling ambiguous loss.

An abrupt end to school for would-be graduates has the potential to turn existential despair into traumatic loss. (Shutterstock)

April 17, 2020

Some students in the class of 2020 may face traumatic loss due to coronavirus. Here’s how to help.

Marnie Wedlake, Western University

Don’t medicalize all anguish and existential despair, says a registered psychotherapist. Consider earlier traumas and 7 books about suffering and survival.

A makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue, Nov. 1, 2018. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

November 5, 2018

How to make meaning in aftermath of Pittsburgh and other violent acts

Joan M. Cook, Yale University

The deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue filled people with sadness and fear. Transforming the grief into meaning is very difficult, a trauma psychologist writes, but ultimately healing.

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