In one forum, Journal of Loss and Trauma brings together
scholarship on personal losses relating to family, health, and agings
issues. The journal addresses issues dealing with psychological and
physical health and interpersonal losses relative to extended family,
community life, and society as a whole.
In order to broaden the reader’s perspective on loss and
bereavement, the journal defines loss as a major reduction in a person’s
resources, whether personal, material, or symbolic, to which the person
was emotionally attached. Types of loss covered include: death and
dying; dissolution and divorce; loss of employment; life-threatening
diseases and long-term disability; loss of possessions; homelessness;
recurring and haunting memories; disenfranchisement and
stigmatisation; losses resulting from war and violence; and agings.
The Journal of Loss & Trauma highlights common as well as
differing impacts of major losses while revealing commonalities of the
various healing processes. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the journal
publishes empirically-oriented papers, case studies with intervention
strategies, point-counterpoint discussions, theoretical analyses, essays
on concepts or links among relevant fields, and therapeutic approaches.
Book reviews are also regular features.