HSS 130 GRIEF AND LOSS WITH 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 roles as professional helpers. The course will cover normal grief reactions in children, ages and developmental stages in response to loss, tasks of grief, communicating with bereaved children, academic issues, behavior, and complicated issues related to traumatic grief.

Credits

2

Course Types

Lecture

Offered

• Summer

Notes

We are changing this from an experimental course and assigning it a permanent number.

1. Increase awareness of how personal and professional attitudes influence the effectiveness of grief work with children and adolescents.
   
   Increase practice skills with children and adolescents experiencing loss with key aims to:
   • Enable the bereaved to accept the loss;
   • Provide support and safety;
   • Help the bereaved recognize the grief process and to reassure them that their feelings;
   • Enable the bereaved to explore the loss and feelings evoked;
   • Help the bereaved live without the physical presence of the deceased;
   • Help the bereaved identify positive strategies in coping;
   • Help the bereaved access positive support from other in their lives;
   • Help establish a continuing relationship with the person who has died where appropriate.