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Overview of Content and

Learning Outcomes of Modules

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"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:

  • Be able to compare and contrast three processes to assist grieving.

  • Recognise the differences in individual styles of grieving.

  • Be familiar with the determinants of grief and grieving.

  • Explain how strong emotions impact on grieving.

  • 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

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Module 1  :  The Anatomy of Grief 

 

Learning Objectives

  • Have an overview of how our understanding of grief has developed.

  • Be familiar with the normal manifestations of grief.

  • Be able to explain these manifestations to another.

  • Have developed your awareness of loss in relation to life events.

  • Understand the concept of a loss profile.

  • Be able to create a loss profile in relation to different types of losses.

  • Have an awareness of different models of grief.

  • Be able to identify advantages and disadvantages in relation to such models.

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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:

  • Be able to describe the potential outcomes of loss.

  • Be able to identify your own beliefs and attitudes about grieving.

  • Be able to recognize any discrepancy between personal beliefs and practice.

  • Structure a framework from which to begin responding to those who grieve.

  • Have an increased awareness of how to respond to strong emotion.

  • 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:

  • Be familiar with the normal grieving behaviour of children and adolescents.

  • Understand how children’s concept of death develops.

  • Have acquired insight into how the losses and management of grief in childhood influences the way we grieve as adults.

  • Recognise the hidden losses in childhood grief.

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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

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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:

  • Be able to identify the needs of bereaved parents.

  • Have an increased awareness of the difficulties that arise during parental mourning that often remain unaddressed.

  • Recognise the heightened responses particular to parental grief.

  • Be able to relate specific grief issues to particular types of infant death.

  • 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:

  • Have an overview of the leading causes and trends of mortality in New Zealand.

  • Have an appreciation of how perspectives of death have developed and changed.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • Have an overview of the leading causes and trends of mortality in New Zealand.

  • Have an appreciation of how perspectives of death have developed and changed.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • Have a theoretical concept to discuss the issue of suicide.

  • Gained insight of grief related issues that result from sudden and traumatic death.

  • Expanded your personal awareness of suicide intent.

  • Recognise the popular myths that surround suicide.

  • Developed principles and guidelines for working with survivors of sudden death.

  • Understand legal and social issues that are inherent in these situations and which can impinge on or block grieving.

  • Recognise the significance of survival guilt and have interventions for responding to the issues it raises.

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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

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 Module 9   ;   Funeral Processes

By the end of the Module it is intended that the following Learning Objectives will have been met:

  • Be familiar with funeral processes from death to disposition.

  • Understand and define options in order to advise another about the process.

  • Have reflected on the development and efficacy of modern day funerals.

  • Recognise how all factors in this process affect grieving.

  • Applied the learning of this module to specific case studies to

    • identify how and why specific difficulties arose, and

    • construct strategies for grief care to address the issues.

 

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          

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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.

  • Identified work situations that have the potential to cause trauma.

  • Appreciate the wider impact and costs created by unresolved grief and unacknowledged trauma. 

  • Distinguish between trauma intervention techniques and psychotherapeutic processes.

  • Recognise the personal losses that accompany change.

  • Describe how divergent processes of implementing change can result in trauma.

  • Explain why grief in the workplace is an ongoing and growing issue.

  • 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:

  • Have considered the significance of boundaries, and be able to differentiate between professional and personal boundaries.

  • Identified personal stressors and stress indicators.

  • Developed a plan for your self care.

  • Gained insight about the process of clinical supervision.

  • Have a realistic understanding of the impact and vigilance that is required to maintain personal health in this sphere of work.

  • Understand that personal and professional health requires the maintenance and development of our physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual res

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