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Grief and Growth: A Manual for Counselors and Educators

Posted by Wendy Davenson | August 24, 2011

This book takes the reader through the process of loss and grief, teaching the concepts of growth and healing as integral parts of the journey of grief.

Pauline Boss
from The N=1 Experiment Blog

There, but not There: Loving Someone Who Has Dementia

By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | August 17, 2011

Pauline Boss is a pioneer in the subject of family stress and, in the 1970s, she began to notice a type of grief-frozen grief, she calls it-that families experienced when a loss is ambiguous.

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When Families Grieve

Posted by Kara Newby | March 01, 2011

Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.

Dr. Pauline Boss
from Members' Stories

How a Theory is Born: A Conversation with Pauline Boss

by Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE

NCFR staff member Nancy Gonzalez interviews NCFR Burgess Award winner, Pauline Boss, about her groundbreaking theory, Ambiguous Loss.

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December 2001 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Death and Dying

According to the old adage, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. But while a good accountant might shelter us from taxes, we must all eventually face death. In this issue, we explore the experience of death and the grief of survivors. Among the topics: death as a normative family experience, compassionate end-of-life care, finding meaning in death, and ambiguous loss in the wake of recent terrorist attacks.