SWK 3550SWK Grief and Loss

Catalog

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 or ENG 1009; ENG 1020 or ENG 1021 This course will address grief and loss across the lifespan from a social work perspective including traditional, ambiguous, and disenfranchised grief. Students will be provided with information about why and how humans grieve and how grieving is affected by an intersection of characteristics of the person grieving and societal norms. Various types of loss will be discussed alongside implications for social work practice at micro, mezzo, and macro levels.