HSS 172 GRIEF AD LOSS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

This course will introduce students to the nature and centrality of the experience of loss and subsequent grief in their personal lives, the lives of adolescents and children, and their role as professional helpers. The course will cover normal grief re-actions in children, ages and developmental stages in response to loss, tasks of grief, communicating with bereaved children, academic issues, behavior, complicated issues related to traumatic grief.