Ambiguous Loss Theory: Challenges for Scholars and Practitioners

By Pauline Boss. 2007

441 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/811df0ea40bf9a4b7f00e305815770677883a50f

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In Clinical Psychology

1. David P. Farrington
2. J. Murray
3. Kristen Norwood
4. R. Dekel
5. C. Monson
6. Pauline Boss
7. Leah E. LeFebvre
8. Christopher Wildeman

In General Health Professions

1. J. Murray
2. David P. Farrington
3. Kristen Norwood
4. R. Dekel
5. C. Monson
6. Pauline Boss
7. I. Sekol

In Social Psychology

1. J. Murray
2. Kristen Norwood
3. R. Dekel
4. C. Monson
5. David P. Farrington
6. Leah E. LeFebvre
7. Mike Allen
8. Maria M. Ttofi

Citations in the corpus

• Ghosting in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Digital Dissolution Disappearance Strategy (2019, background): “Ambiguous loss refers to uncertainty without finality or resolution that remains unclear (Boss, 2007).”
• The Context and Process of Theory Development: The Story of Ambiguous Loss (2016, background): “With both types of ambiguous loss, people must construct their own meaning of the situation within a paradox of absence and presence (see Boss, 2007).”
• Grieving Gender: Trans-identities, Transition, and Ambiguous Loss (2013, background): “The experience of bereavement where the object of grief is unclear is called ambiguous loss (Boss, 1999a, 1999b, 2007).”
• The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children (2008, background): “…of their imprisoned father, one-third were told a fudged truth, and one-third were told the whole truth.10 When no information is available to children about parental absence, children tend to blame themselves, possibly increasing the risk of adverse reactions (Hinshaw 2005; see also Boss 2007).”
• Military-related post-traumatic stress disorder and family relations: Current knowledge and future directions (2010, background): “This model suggests that ambiguity is an important mechanism of producing stress among family members and it has been validated in various populations who suffer ambiguity regarding the loss of their loved ones such as in Alzheimer disease or waiting to learn the fate of a child gone missing (Boss, ”