Psychology of Grief

Within this course you will:

• get the opportunity to examine your own feelings about loss and grief, so that you may be more open to the grieving of others
• review literature relevant to grief and loss
• gain an understanding of healthy and dysfunctional grieving processes
• learn strategies for facilitating the grieving process, dealing with the grieving, preventing abnormal grief reactions
• learn how to know when specialist counselling is needed.

Topics covered include:

• the psychological and physical needs of people who are dying
• theories and patterns of grief
• specific Mäori practices relating to dying, loss and grief
• children’s and adolescents’ experiences and understandings
• experiences from the carer’s perspective
• facilitating and managing grief
• grief counselling
• special types of loss; and
• organisations dealing with loss, grief and dying.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• choose the qualification you will study the course under
• check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.