Overview
Description
This course explores the grieving process related to death, unexpected loss, suicide, developmental loss, relationship loss, and loss due to illness and aging. “Normal” bereavement and complicated bereavement.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- assist students to increase sensitivity toward those who are grieving through gaining a deeper level of self-understanding of their own attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about loss, grief, and death.
- assist students to understand societal and familial stigmas surrounding death, dying, grief and loss.
- demonstrate the skills to identify complicated vs. normal bereavement responses.
- demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of assessment issues in grief and loss.
- provide tools and ideas that will assist the counselor with a grieving client.
- explore and discuss grief as it relates to loss situations, i.e., death, divorce, aging, death of a pet, loss of a job, family dysfunction, relationship loss, developmental loss, and other losses.
- explore and discuss suicide and suicide prevention.