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May 03, 2024
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SHS 165 - Working with Bereavement
3.0 Credits
Understanding the role and challenges of human service providers in responding to clients in bereavement. Includes exploration of societal responses to death and dying, coping methods, and styles of mourning. Examination of client, caregiver and system responses to grief and loss. Prerequisite
Completion of 10 credits of SHS, FSS and/or AHE courses. Corequisite
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the difference between grief, bereavement and loss.
- Describe some of the cultural belief systems related to death, dying and bereavement.
- Explain the biological, psychological and social implications of dying on all affected by the death.
- Identify the supports that human service providers can offer to the dying and their families in preparation for death.
- Explain the ethical and legal considerations associated with critical care, the dying and the dead.
- Describe options for care for the dying such as hospice, POLST, advance directives, end of life consultation and other end-of-life care options.
- Articulate the tasks of grief and how death informs all other types of losses.
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