Overview of Content and
Learning Outcomes of Modules
"This educational offering is recognised by the Association for Death Education and Counselling to meet the thanatology-related contact hours requirement to be Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement."
Module 2 : The Process of Grieving
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Be able to compare and contrast three processes to assist grieving.
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Recognise the differences in individual styles of grieving.
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Be familiar with the determinants of grief and grieving.
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Explain how strong emotions impact on grieving.
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Have an overview of those cultural and family behaviours that influence grieving behavior.
Module 1
The Anatomy of Grief
Overview of Content
Theoretical Development
of Grief
The Nature of Grief
Recognising Losses
The Manifestations of Grief
Models of Grief
Anticipatory and
Disenfranchised Grief
Cultural Aspects of Grief
Grief and Depression
Module 2
The Process of Grieving
Overview of Content
The work of Grieving
Factors that Influence Grief and Grieving
Individual Styles of Grieving
Strong Emotions that emerge
The Needs of the Grieving
Module 1 : The Anatomy of Grief
Learning Objectives
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Have an overview of how our understanding of grief has developed.
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Be familiar with the normal manifestations of grief.
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Be able to explain these manifestations to another.
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Have developed your awareness of loss in relation to life events.
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Understand the concept of a loss profile.
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Be able to create a loss profile in relation to different types of losses.
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Have an awareness of different models of grief.
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Be able to identify advantages and disadvantages in relation to such models.
Module 3
Responding
To Those Who Grieve
Overview of Content
Potential Outcomes of Loss
Getting Started
Principals and Guidelines
Developing Strategies
Responding to Strong Emotions
Rituals
Some Dos & Don’ts
Grief Assessment
Complicated Grieving
Module 3 : Responding to Those who Grieve
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Be able to describe the potential outcomes of loss.
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Be able to identify your own beliefs and attitudes about grieving.
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Be able to recognize any discrepancy between personal beliefs and practice.
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Structure a framework from which to begin responding to those who grieve.
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Have an increased awareness of how to respond to strong emotion.
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Be able to deduce what are helpful or unhelpful interventions to make when responding to anyone who is grieving.
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Module 4
The Grief of
Children and Adolescents
Overview of Content
Recognising children’s losses
Difficulties children encounter
Normal grieving behaviour
Learning about death
Children are great philosophers
Responding to children’s questions
Grief and grieving in adolescence
Separation and Divorce
Module 4 : The Grief of
Children and Adolescents
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Be familiar with the normal grieving behaviour of children and adolescents.
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Understand how children’s concept of death develops.
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Have acquired insight into how the losses and management of grief in childhood influences the way we grieve as adults.
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Recognise the hidden losses in childhood grief.
Module 5
The Grief of
Bereaved Parents
Overview of Content
The Grieving of Parents
Miscarriage / Stillbirth / Abortion
Further Issues for Consideration : Intensified Responses
Myths about Parental Grief
Role and Gender Differences
Marital Difficulties
Explaining the Death to Siblings
Practical Interventions
Module 5 : The Grief of Bereaved Paremts
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Be able to identify the needs of bereaved parents.
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Have an increased awareness of the difficulties that arise during parental mourning that often remain unaddressed.
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Recognise the heightened responses particular to parental grief.
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Be able to relate specific grief issues to particular types of infant death.
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Be able to describe role and gender differences that influence grief responses.
Module 6
Death
Overview of Content
Historical perspectives of death
N.Z. Attitudes on Death
The Demography of Death in New Zealand
Legal Issues
Moral and Ethical Issues
The Death System
Module 6 : Death
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Have an overview of the leading causes and trends of mortality in New Zealand.
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Have an appreciation of how perspectives of death have developed and changed.
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Be able to identify key legal and moral issues that are currently associated with death, and the role that modern technology plays in these issues.
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Become aware of your own attitudes, beliefs and feelings in relation to death.
Module 7
Facing the Crisis of the Knowledge of Death
Overview of Content
The Completion of Life
Role Confusion
Onset of the Dying Process
Four Definitions of Death
Key Factors that Influence the Dying Process
Onset of the Dying Process
Waiting for Death
Surrogate Grief
Working in a Death System
The spiritual Dimension
Module 7 : Facing the Crisis of the Knowledge of Death
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Have an overview of the leading causes and trends of mortality in New Zealand.
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Have an appreciation of how perspectives of death have developed and changed.
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Be able to identify key legal and moral issues that are currently associated with death, and the role that modern technology plays in these issues.
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Become aware of your own attitudes, beliefs and feelings in relation to death.
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Module 8
Sudden Death and Grief
Overview of Content
Traumatic Loss and Death:
Suicide:
Defining suicide
A theoretical approach
Cultural meanings of suicide
Individual meanings of suicide
Popular myths about suicide
Bereaved by suicide
Intervention and Practice Guidelines
Homicide:
Clinical assessment
Special areas of concern
Judicial proceedings
Checklist for counsellors
Disasters:
Factors that complicate grieving
Survival Guilt
Bereavement Burnout
Module 8 : Sudden Death and Grief
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Have a theoretical concept to discuss the issue of suicide.
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Gained insight of grief related issues that result from sudden and traumatic death.
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Expanded your personal awareness of suicide intent.
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Recognise the popular myths that surround suicide.
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Developed principles and guidelines for working with survivors of sudden death.
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Understand legal and social issues that are inherent in these situations and which can impinge on or block grieving.
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Recognise the significance of survival guilt and have interventions for responding to the issues it raises.
Module 9
Funeral Processes
Overview of Content
Funeral Customs
Selecting Funeral Services
Making Meaningful Choices
Body Disposition
Making Death Legal
The Funeral Service
The Value of Funerals
Case Studies
Module 9 ; Funeral Processes
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Be familiar with funeral processes from death to disposition.
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Understand and define options in order to advise another about the process.
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Have reflected on the development and efficacy of modern day funerals.
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Recognise how all factors in this process affect grieving.
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Applied the learning of this module to specific case studies to
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identify how and why specific difficulties arose, and
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construct strategies for grief care to address the issues.
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Module 10
Grief in the Workplace
Ignoring Grief is a Costly Business
Traumatic Experiences
in the Workplace
Integration and Coping Strategies
Grief and Loss in the Workplace
Change in the Workplace
A New Source of Grief
in the Workplace
Cultural Diversity and Grief
in the Workplace
Module 11 :
Occupational Health & Safety : Self-Care
Why it is Important to
Look After Self
Planning for Self Care
Recognising Stress
Inherent Stressors in Grief Work
Personal Grief
Boundaries
Clinical Supervision
Beware of Burnout
Support Systems
Module 10 ; Grief in the Workplace
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
Developed a heightened awareness of grief in the workplace.
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Identified work situations that have the potential to cause trauma.
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Appreciate the wider impact and costs created by unresolved grief and unacknowledged trauma.
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Distinguish between trauma intervention techniques and psychotherapeutic processes.
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Recognise the personal losses that accompany change.
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Describe how divergent processes of implementing change can result in trauma.
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Explain why grief in the workplace is an ongoing and growing issue.
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Considered the grieving needs of a culturally diverse workforce.
Module 10 ; Grief in the Workplace
By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:
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Have considered the significance of boundaries, and be able to differentiate between professional and personal boundaries.
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Identified personal stressors and stress indicators.
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Developed a plan for your self care.
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Gained insight about the process of clinical supervision.
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Have a realistic understanding of the impact and vigilance that is required to maintain personal health in this sphere of work.
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Understand that personal and professional health requires the maintenance and development of our physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual res
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