Grief and Bereavement for Adults and Children

Catalog description

The goal of this workshop is to introduce students to the study of grief and bereavement across the developmental stages of childhood to later adulthood from a biopsychosocial perspective. Among the topics included are classical and post-modern theories of grief and loss; loss as a normative experience and process; intervention strategies; attachment and loss in pregnancy; retirement and reinvention; and, transference and countertransference in grief/loss work.