{"id":34337,"date":"2018-05-16T10:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=34337"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:20:58","slug":"paul-thayer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/paul-thayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Paul Thayer teaches the family-centered care courses in the Child Life &amp; Family-Centered Care program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. A clinical associate professor, his areas of expertise include grief and loss, professional ethics, and family studies. Before joining BU Wheelock, he was a pediatric hospice director.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: he\/him<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/bu-wheelock-celebrates-four-retiring-faculty-members\/\">BU Wheelock Celebrates Four Retiring Faculty Members<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/partnering-with-parents-in-education\/\">Partnering with Parents in Education<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-march-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, March 2026<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/magazine\/articles\/2022\/child-life-at-50\/\">Child Life at 50<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":14229,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/34337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/34337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89249,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/34337\/revisions\/89249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}