Please join the SCSU Faculty Association (FA) and the SCSU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) on Wednesday, October 2nd from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM for a Zoom workshop on Finding Meaning and Hope in the Ambiguous Loss of Retrenchment by Dr. Pauline Boss. The format will be a presentation followed by a question and answer period, and anyone in the SCSU community is encouraged to attend.
The workshop will center around her book The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change, and a limited number of copies are available by contacting CETL@stcloudstate.edu. We will stock additional copies in the CETL lending library in 225 Stewart Hall after the event.
A limited number of copies of Dr Boss’ original book, Ambiguous Loss (2000) are available through the Faculty Association. Please contact facassoc@stcloudstate.edu if you would like to request a copy.
Book and conversation groups will be available after the event. Please indicate your interest by responding to the registration questions.
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Pauline Boss, PhD, Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a former president of the National Council on Family Relations. She practiced family therapy for over 40 years. With her groundbreaking work in research and practice, Dr. Boss coined the term ambiguous loss in the 1970s and since then, developed and tested the theory of ambiguous loss, a guide for working with families of the missing, physically or psychologically. Her most recent book is The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change (W. W. Norton, 2022). For more information about Dr. Boss, her writings, and the ambiguous loss online training program, see www.ambiguousloss.com.