Coping with Loss for Interprofessional Certificate

Catalog description

The course provides a theoretical base for understanding and addressing the psychosocial and spiritual aspects of loss, death, and bereavement. The use of contemporary knowledge for strengthening the coping skills of grieving individuals, families, or groups is emphasized. Areas of study include skills of assessment and treatment, which are explored using personal and case materials and video. Strategies and interventions in working with a culturally diverse array of vulnerable populations confronting loss, for whom services and programs need to be planned, are highlighted. The ethical dilemmas of disenfranchised grief associated with abortion, HIV/AIDS, suicide, aid-in-dying, and socially stigmatized sexual relationships are also explored. Restriction(s): For students in the Interprofessional Aging and Palliative Care Certificate only. Previously offered as SWK 6702 .