Ambiguous Loss: Its Meaning and Application Non-Credit Professional Development Training Course Module 1: Ambiguous Loss Definition, Two Types Module 3: Effects and Assessment of Ambiguous Overview Loss • Theory and Assumptions of Ambiguous Loss Overview • Where Ambiguous Loss Fits into the Contextual • Effects of Ambiguous Loss Model of Family Stress (CMFS) • Individual effects of ambiguous loss • Definition of Ambiguous Loss • Sadness vs. depression • Two Types of Ambiguous Loss • Family systemic effects • What Ambiguous Loss is NOT • Assessment of Effects - The 3 Rs Learning Objectives • Family roles • Understand ambiguous loss theory, its • Family rules assumptions, and relation to stress theory • Family rituals • Define ambiguous loss and the two types Learning Objectives • Recognize what ambiguous loss is not • Recognize the individual effects of ambiguous loss and distinguish between sadness and depression Module 2: Loss and Grief: History and Update • Recognize family systemic effects of ambiguous loss Overview • Apply assessment questions to determine effects of Brief History of Ideas About Grief ambiguous loss • Personal vs. Professional, Freud Module 4: Treatment and Intervention - Goals and • Grief as Repressed or Delayed, Erich Lindemann Guidelines • Grief in Five Stages, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross • Update on Grief Research with a focus on: Overview • More nuanced types of grief; disenfranchised, • Resilience: The Goal for Treatment and Intervention chronic sorrow, grief as normal oscillation • Resilience: Definition, Update, and Cautions • Living with grief; no need to get over it, no • How to Increase Resilience timeline Learning Objectives • Types of grief • Understand various definitions of resilience • Resilience Instead of closure • Recognize cautions surrounding the goal of resilience • Family/community after loss • Identify techniques to increase resilience • Cultural Views Module 5: Guidelines for Resilience to Live Well • Religious and Secular Views • Ambiguous Loss and Religious Beliefs Overview • Treatment and Intervention Guidelines Learning Objectives • Finding meaning • Describe the progression of views about loss and • Adjusting mastery grief in the past and in contemporary research • Reconstructing identity • Distinguish between Western and Eastern cultural • Normalizing ambivalence views of loss and grief • Revising attachment • Examine relationship between ambiguous loss and • Discovering new hope religious beliefs • Self-Care • Warning signs of burnout Learn more: • How to stay resilient and strong despite ambiguous z.umn.edu/AL-Contact loss and unanswered questions Learning Objectives • Understand and apply the guidelines for living well • Recognize and manage need for self-care Department of Family Social Science • Recognize warning signs of burnout: physical, 1985 Buford Avenue 612-625-1900 psychological, and relational Saint Paul, Minn. 55108 [email protected] • Identify techniques to build resilience