Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Discuss the importance of studying death.
- Define death and the connection death has in our lives.
- Evaluate attitudes and practices regarding death, considering the American perspective.
- Discuss the American perspective about the aging and death concept.
- Identify personal aspects or characteristics that affect the coping and grieving process.
- Differentiate between grief, mourning, and bereavement and how these differ from person to person.
- Relate theories and frameworks of grief to the skills of the human service professional.
- Define uncomplicated and complicated grief.
- Explain the coping tasks associated with each developmental stage of life.
- Identify special populations and experiences which require alternative ways of coping with grief and loss.
- List some grief counseling techniques which can service special populations.
- Differentiate between palliative care, hospice, home care, health programs, and mental health services.
- Determine support systems for individuals facing death and for their families.
- Explain end of life moral and legal issues present before, at, and after death, including tissue donation and disposition of body and estate .
- Evaluate how theories of facing death may be used to help the dying individual and the caregivers .
- Recommend coping skills strategies for grief counselors and caregivers to cope with end of life of loved ones.
- Analyze the relationships among death beliefs, personal and social choices, human morality, and the meaning of death.
- Evaluate the significance of self-care when working with grief issues.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
- Construct personal coping strategies to decrease vulnerability to compassion fatigue and strengthen professional boundaries.
