Ambiguous Loss Research, Theory, and Practice: Reflections after 9-11.

By Pauline Boss. 2004

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/32f4a996df66c81f8e32864c65c90dfbc7b9b9ad

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Citations in the corpus

Gatekeeping in Context: Babymama Drama and the Involvement of Incarcerated Fathers (2005, background): “Although the concept first described psychological father absence in intact families (Boss, 2004), it also helps us to conceptualize the effects of fathers’ physical and psychological absence from their families due to incarceration.”
Experiences of Arriving to Sweden as an Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Minor from Afghanistan: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2015, background): “Such ambiguous loss is characterized by a lack of clarity, as there is no opportunity to perform mourning rituals which would otherwise be an important part of grieving and coming to terms with the loss (Boss, 2004).”
Ambiguous Loss in Families of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2007, background): “…loss theory, when people experience ambiguous loss, they have difficulty making decisions, are unable to alter family roles and routines even when these old ways of doing things do not fit their new situation, question their beliefs and competence, and become exhausted (Boss, 1999, 2004, 2006).”
A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime: Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Backgrounds (2008, background): “This is exacerbated by societal norms and theories of grief that idealize closure to the grieving process (Eakes & Burke, 1999) and the return to a sense of order and mastery over one’s life and one’s emotions (Boss, 2004).”
Family Boundary Ambiguity: A 30-Year Review of Theory, Research, and Measurement. (2007, methodology): “In her later work, Boss (1991, 1999, 2004, 2006) used social construction theory (Gergen, 1991) to further define ambiguity related to unclear stressor events (A-factor).”
Ambiguous Loss Theory: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners (2007, background): “Out of observation and intuition emerged a more inclusive term, ‘‘ambiguous loss,’’ and a model of the two types: physical absence with psychological presence, psychological absence with physical presence (Boss, 1999, 2004, 2006).”
Parental Deployment and Youth in Military Families: Exploring Uncertainty and Ambiguous Loss* (2007, background): “The work of Boss on ambiguous loss provides an important framework for exploring how adolescents experience and respond to parental deployment (Boss, 1999, 2004, 2006).”
The Trauma and Complicated Grief of Ambiguous Loss (2010, neutral): “One such lens is ambiguous loss theory ( Boss 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006; Boss et al. 2003).”