University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development Department of Family Social Science

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	Pauline Boss
	Professor Emeritus Office: 299h McNeal Hall Phone:  612-625-5289 E-mail:  pboss@umn.edu Mailing address:  290 McNeal Hall View faculty expertise database Degrees Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975 - Child Development and Family Studies M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971 - Child Development and Family Studies B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1956 - Education Honors & Awards 2002 Humanitarian Award, SEIU Local 32 BJ for dedicated and compassionate work with the families who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th, 2002 2002 Ernest Burgess Award, National Council on Family Relations for research and theory 2002 Excellence in Outreach and Engagement Award, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota 2000 Elected Fellow, National Council Family Relations for research contributions Scholarhip Interests Family therapy - Family stress and coping - Ambiguous loss - Caregiving for families dealing with Alzheimer's and missing family members - Immigrant families - Women's issues - Successful caregiving Teaching & Learning Dr. Boss is retired and no longer teaching courses. Research & Discovery Minnesota - New York Ambiguous Loss Project - The University of Minnesota teamed with the Service Employees International Union, 32-BJ, to provide mental health services to their 70,000 union members. Successful Caregivers - Our goal is to determine how to define and locate successful caregivers, or persons who have a relatively high quality of life despite dealing with long term ambiguous loss in caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease, and whether cultural differences exist in successful caregiving. Outreach & Engagement Worked at the Anglican Church Hospital in Adelaide, Australia in February and March, 2005 performing training on various forms of Ambiguous loss 2002 FSoS Acting Head, Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program 2002 FSoS Search & Screen Committee 2001 FSoS Search & Screen Committee Selected Publications Boss, P. (1999). Ambiguous Loss. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Boss, P. (1996). They did it quietly: The meaning of immigration for women. In H. Ryhner (Ed.), Jubilaumsbuch 150 Jahr New Glarus: America's Little Switzerland errinnert sich. Glarus, Switzerland: Tschudi AG. Boss, P. Dahl, C., & Kaplan, L. (1996). The meaning of family: The phenomenological perspective in family research. In S. Moon & D. Sprenkle (Eds.), Research Methods in Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press. Boss, P. (1995). Learning by doing: Memories of Carl Whitaker. American Family Therapy Association Newsletter, 26(4), 13. Gurko, T. A. & Boss, P. G. (1995). "The relations of husbands and wives in marriage." In A. Antonov, M. J. Matskovsky, J. W. Maddock & M. J. Hogan (Eds.), The family on the threshold of the third millennium. Moscow: Russian Academy of Science, Center for Human Values. Boss, P. (1995, Winter). The teaching of intuition. American Family Therapy Academy Newsletter, p. 18. Boss, P. (1995, July-August). That man Whitaker! Networker, pp. 58-59. Boss, P., Kaplan, L., & Gordon, M. (1995). Accepting the circle of life. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Reporter, XXV(3), 7-11. Garwick, A., Detzner, D., & Boss, P. (1994). Family perceptions of living with Alzheimer's disease. Family Process, 33, 327-340. Boss, P. (1994, December). The merging of family therapy research and practice. American Family Therapy Association Newsletter. Boss, P. (1994, March). Research methods for family therapists. The Networker Conference. Washington, D. C. Boss, P. (1994). Coping with ambiguous loss. In System Familie. Springer Verlag. Boss, P., & Gurko, T. A. (1994). The relationships of men and women in marriage. In J. W. Maddock, M. J. Hogan, A. I. Antonov & M. S. Matskovsky (Eds.), Families Before and After Perestroika: Russian and U. S. Perspectives (pp. 36-75). New York: Guilford. Boss, P. (1993). The reconstruction of family life with Alzheimer's disease: Generating theory to understand family stress from ambiguous loss. In P. Boss, W. Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schumm & S. Steinmetz (Eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach. New York: Plenum. Boss, P., Doherty, W., LaRossa, R., Schumm, W., & Steinmetz, S. (Eds.) (1993). Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach. New York: Plenum. Boss, P. (1993). The experience of immigration for the mother left behind: The use of qualitative feminist strategies to analyze letters from my Swiss grandmother to my father. Marriage and Family Review, 19(3/4). Boss, P. (1993). Remembering our roots: Family-of-origin work as part of training in family therapy. Zeitshrift System Familie, 4. Boss, P. (1993). The experience of immigration for the mother left behind: The use of qualitative feminist strategies to analyze letters from my Swiss grandmother to my father. In B. H. Settles, D. E. Hanks III & M. B. Sussman (Eds.), Families on the Move: Migration, Immigration, emigration, and mobility. Binghamton, New York: Haworth. Boss, P. (1993). The construction of chronicity: Coping with ambiguous loss. In R. Welter-Enderline & B. Hiltebrand (Eds.), System Familie (pp. 161-170). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. Boss, P. (1993). Boundary ambiguity: A block to cognitive coping. In A. Turnbull, J. Patterson, S. Behr, D. Murphy, J. Marquis & M. Blue-Banning (Eds.), Cognitive Coping, Families and Disability (pp. 257-270). Baltimore: Brooks Publishing.