PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH AND DYING

Catalog description

Prerequisite: PSY 101, grade of C. Objective coverage of the relevant issues pertaining to death and dying; the stages of dying, counseling the dying person, attitudes of and reactions to death, psychological needs served by funeral and burial rituals, suicide, grief, bereavement, the child and death, effect of death on survivors, euthanasia, and medical and legal definitions of death. Offered occasionally.