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Part I: General Perspectives on Loss, Trauma, Coping and PositiveImpacts of Loss. From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effectsof Stressful Life Events. The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology ofAppreciation. Bereavement. Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A SocialPsychological Perspective. Victim Thinking. The Ranking of Personal Grief:Death and Comparative Loss. Parallel Selves as Ending of the Grief Work.Rational Suicide. Part 2: Loss and Trauma Associated with SpecificPopulations. The Role of Perceived Control in Coping with the LossesAssociated with Chronic Illness. Coping as a "Reality Construction": On theRole of Attentive, Comparative, and Interpretive Processes in Coping withCancer. Loss, Adjustment, and Growth after Cancer: Lessons from Patients'children. The Few Gains and Many Losses for Those Stigmatized by PsychiatricDisorders. The Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: The "Irrational"Effects of The Justice Motive on Managers, Dismissed Workers, and Survivors.Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: kers, and Survivors. Transcending ALifetime of Losses: Grief and Loss. On Being Homeless and Mentally Ill: AMultitude of Losses and the Possibility of Recovery. Part 3: Loss and TraumaAssociated with Close Relationships. Loss, Resources, and Resiliency inClose Interpersonal Relationships. Negotiating Terminal Illness:Communication, Collusion, and Coalition in Caregiving. Caregiver Loss andQuality of Care Provided: Pre-Illness Relationship Makes a Difference.Adjusting to Infertility. Widowhood in Later-Life. The Loss of Loved Ones:the Impact of Relationship Infidelity. Unyielding custody disputes:Tempering Loss and Courting disaster. Cognitive Interdependence and theExperience of Relationship Loss. Part 4: Conclusion. Commentary on Field ofLoss and Trauma and Chapters.