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Pensando familias

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BRITO, Cristiane Camargo de Oliveira; SANTOS, Marcella Oliveira; BRITO, Marcus Vinicius Camargo de  and  COELHO, Maria Renata Machado. Case study of ambiguous loss front of a missing teenager son. Pensando fam. [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp. 59-74. ISSN 1679-494X.

The Theory of Ambiguous Loss (AL) to put that is one of the most disturbing, stressful and traumatizing, in front of the others, aren`t confirmation, closing or supporting rituals, therefore, isn`t a true resolution, this study aimed to verify characteristics of ambiguous loss, (the first kind) Lived by a mother of a missing teenager, characterized by physical absence, but without comprovation of death, and with psychic presence continuous. Also investigated interrelationships between the speaker's giver and the results of the family Support Perception Inventory. was possible to identify low level of family support in all factors (affective-consistent, autonomy and family adaptation), as well as several factors of this ambiguous loss, focusing on issues such as hope and hopelessness, presence and absence, factors for new focuses of transformative interventions.

Keywords : Ambiguous loss; Disappearance; Adolescent; Family; Mourning.

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