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.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.