SOWK 741 - Grief & Loss: Theory & Skills for Intervention

Institution:

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

Social Work

Description:

This course explores the psychosocial process of grief and bereavement following a loss. Divorce, disaster, deployment, death, and other human experiences of loss will be discussed. This course will focus on the experiences of loss, grief, and bereavement as experienced by individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. We will consider how grief shapes lives, challenges ones response to change, and can determine how one forms, maintains, and lets go of relationships. This course will examine theories of grief and loss across the lifespan. In addition, we will consider how social factors i.e., culture, ethnicity/race, gender, class, ethics/values, and sexual orientation may impact the grieving process. We will understand and implement evidence based interventions to address grief and loss related issues. In the process of examining these, students will become aware and sensitized to ones own attitudes, beliefs, and reactions to experiences of loss.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Other

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Institution Website:

www.sru.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 738-9000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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