Funeral Services Counseling and Ethics

Catalog description

This course emphasizes the psychological and sociological dynamics of death, dying, and bereavement and the funeral directors role in counseling families through the process. Students will study the symbolic and ritualistic aspects of funerals and their impacts upon the emotional experience of the bereaved. A clear understanding of the grief process and its variations among individuals as influenced by psychological factors is addressed. The course also addresses the funeral director as a facilitating agent for effective mourning through personal interaction and the design and implementation of the funeral.