PY675 Clinical Issues: Bereavement (1 cr.)

This course covers the stages of grieving and the reorganization of self and social systems in the bereavement process. The effects of particular types of losses and factors affecting the bereavement process are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify the psychosocial needs of people who are experiencing loss and bereavement.
2. Apply the characteristic concepts and stages of the bereavement process to individuals and interpersonal situations.
3. Differentiate between various kinds of grief: anticipatory, acute, complicated (“pathological”), unresolved, new grief, ambiguous grief.
4. Apply guidelines and techniques for facilitating clients in resolving grief.