Overview
Description
Overview of death and dying, coping and adaptation as an individual and family experience from prenatal development through adulthood. Emphasis on both personal and professional applications.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing.
PBH 474HDFS 201HDFS 202PSY 101PSY 335SOC 101
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): PBH 474 or HDFS 201 or HDFS 202 or PSY 101 or PSY 335 or SOC 101; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of a range of grief and loss experiences.
- apply family systems concepts to understanding individual and family experiences with grief, loss, death and dying.
- demonstrate knowledge of grief as it relates to developmental stages across the lifespan (young children to older adults).
- recognize individual, family, community and socio-cultural factors that may impede or facilitate experiences of grief and loss.
- demonstrate understanding of characteristics of various contexts we experience (family, school, workplace, hospital, military, religious) which impede or facilitate dealing with losses and grief.
- demonstrate knowledge of skills and responses for improving personal and professional interactions with bereaved individuals and families.
- integrate course materials to develop high quality discussions about grief and loss issues with other students and the professor.
- demonstrate skills in applying course information to better understand real life and case study situations.
- develop suggestions for improving care at the end of life, and for work with the bereaved specific to one’s own community, neighborhood or family.
- demonstrate increased appreciation that death, like birth, is a natural part of life.