Reference Materials for the Presentation Ambiguous Loss - Supporting families with missing loved ones

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Presentation Reference Materials, March 7, 2016
Ambiguous Loss - Supporting families with missing loved ones
Link to the Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/trasker/ambiguous-loss-march-7-2016
Definitions: Ambiguous Loss, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_loss
Closure, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(psychology)
Reference Materials:
Ambiguous Loss - Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss, Harvard Univ. Press, 1999
Ambiguous loss in families of the missing, Pauline Boss, Lancet Supplement, 360, 2002
Retrieved from www.thelancet.com
Loss, Trauma, and Resilience - Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss, Pauline Boss, Norton & Co., 2006
The trauma and complicated grief of ambiguous loss, Pauline Boss, Pastoral Psychol, 59(2), 137-145. doi:
10.1007/s11089-009-0264-0, 2009
Open to Hope Video: Dr. Pauline Boss and Dr. Gloria Horsley discuss Ambiguous Loss at the annual ADEC
(Association of Death Education and Counseling) conference , Dec. 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vYyefAgZ0
The Myth of Closure by Pauline Boss and Donna Carnes, Family Process, FPI Inc., 2012
Ambiguous Loss website by Pauline Boss www.ambiguousloss.com
Supporting those who are left behind, AFP Australian Federal Police National Missing Persons Coordination
Centre, 2008 http://www.missingpersons.gov.au/en/Education--training/working-with-
families/Supporting-those-who-are-left-behind.aspx
Living in Limbo: 5 Years On, Missing People UK, 2013
https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/downloads.raw?task=callelement&item_id=5396&element=dfbb2d
4b-e3af-40bc-a511-b0d819792af1&method=download&Itemid=474
Writings – Related to the Missing:
Living in Limbo, Missing People UK , published by Missing People, 2008
Living in Limbo: Five Years On, published by Missing People, Sept. 2013
Both documents are available on Missing People UK website under Research
https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/about-us/about-the-issue/research/12-missing-people-research.html
Missing a Loved One – A Parent’s Perspective by Maureen Trask*, Apr. 2012
http://missingpersonsinformation.ca/docs/missing%20a%20loved%20one%20-
%20a%20parents%20perspective.pdf
Shown on CCIMA-Missing Persons Information, under Resources
http://missingpersonsinformation.ca/resources/

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Ambiguous Loss – Seeking Your Help in BON Newsletter Winter Jan. 2013, page 16-17 by Maureen Trask*
http://www.bereavementontarionetwork.ca/siteimages/ber/BONewsletter%20January%202013.pdf
Gone Missing – A Guide to Those Left Behind, Kindle Edition book, by Douglas Coop*, Jan. 2013, NZ
http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Missing-Guide-Behind-
ebook/dp/B00AWXH10C/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1380511720&sr=8-13&keywords=douglas+coop
International Songs for the Missing, written by Nigel Graham, Washington , England
http://www.nigelgrahaminternationalsongsforthemissing.com/
Presenter Contact Information: Maureen Trask trasker@rogers.com Waterloo, Ontario Canada
For more information on Daniel Trask’s case, see
Ottertooth Forum, news briefs and blog links, Temagami Ontario, Canada
http://www.ottertooth.com/temagami.htm
Daniel Trask Investigative Website, by Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR)
http://therucksack.tripod.com/MiBSAR/Cases/Trask/Trask.html
Daniel Trask is Found, on Facebook by Daniel’s mom (previously Daniel Trask is Missing)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniel-Trask-is-Missing/141269306065266?fref=ts
Resources for Families with Missing Loved Ones
Within Canada:
Canada’s Missing (Children, Adults, and Unidentified with Annual Statistics), website by Canada Gov
for The National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains (NCMPUR) of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) http://www.canadasmissing.ca/
Canadian Centre for Information on Missing Adults (CCIMA), website by Victims of CRCVC and OMA,
Ottawa Ontario, Canada http://www.missingpersonsinformation.ca/
Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime (CRCVC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://crcvc.ca/
Missing Children’s Society of Canada (MCSC) website, Calgary, Alberta, Canada http://www.mcsc.ca/
Ontario’s Missing Adults (OMA) by Lucia Dion, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Website http://www.missingadults.ca
FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/298244706910768/?fref=ts
Support for Us FB site by Maureen Trask*, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
https://www.facebook.com/#!/SupportForUs?fref=ts
Music 4 the Missing, Linda Little Smith*, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada http://www.therecord.com/news-
story/2609373-families-of-missing-persons-gather-to-raise-awareness-and-support/
Blue Sky Search & Rescue Assistance Society FB site by Terry Aho*, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
https://www.facebook.com/#!/blueskySARAS?fref=ts

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Other Countries:
International Centre for Missing and Unidentified Persons (DOE Cold Cases) website
http://www.doenetwork.org/
GINA for Missing Persons Foundation website Missing and Squeaky Wheel ™ Tour events, by Jannel Rap*,
California, USA http://www.411gina.org/ 2013 Tour
http://www.411gina.org/squeakywheeltour.htm
NAMUS National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, website USA Gov
http://www.namus.gov/
Poems for the Missing, poet Bob Rich, LA California, USA FB Group by Glendene Grant*, Calgary, Ontario,
Canada https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/101421443247298/
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Missing Persons, website Australia Gov
http://www.missingpersons.gov.au/research/overview.aspx
Missing Persons Advisory Network (MPAN) website by Loren O’Keeffe*, Melbourne, Australia
http://mpan.com.au/
fFOMPACharitable Trust , FB page, by Cylvi Manthyng, Daughter of Douglas Coop, Perth, Western Australia
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_114178058644847&ap=1
Family & Friends of Missing Person Aotearoa (fFOMPA) site, by Douglas Coop*, Wellington, New Zealand
http://www.missingpersons.net.nz/
Missing People UK website, London England Gov, across UK (including England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
www.missingpeople.org.uk
When Someone you Love goes Missing, poem by Tom M. Brown*, Ireland
http://wenswritings.wordpress.com/when-someone-you-loves-goes-missing-by-tom-m-brown/
* Denotes a family member mentioned above in Resources for Families with Missing Loved Ones
Family Member and
relationship
Their Missing Loved
One
Missing Since
(age then)
Missing From
Maureen Trask, mother Daniel Robert Trask (Dan,
Danny) found deceased,
May 24, 2015
Nov. 3, 2011 (28) Waterloo ON Canada
In Temagami ON Canada
Linda Little Smith, step-mother Tasha Marie Smith, found
deceased, July 18, 2014
Dec. 1, 2010 (28) Cambridge ON Canada,
Terry Aho, father Robert Aho
(Robbie)
Oct. 12, 2009 (31) Marten River ON Canada
Glendene Grant, mother Jessica Edith Louise Foster
(Jessica)
Between Mar. 28
& Apr. 3, 2006 (21)
Calgary AB Canada
in N Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Jannel Rap, sister Regina Marie Bos
(Gina)
Oct. 17, 2000 (40) Lincoln Nebraska USA
Loren O’Keeffe, sister Daniel James O’Keeffe
(Dan)
July 15, 2011 (26) Highton, Australia
Douglas Coop, father Dr. Peter Coop June 1989 (28) Dunedin, New Zealand
Tom M. Brown, brother Ellen Coss Brown Nov. 3, 1999 (50) Dublin, Ireland
in Manchester, England