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Feb 10, 2025
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HDFS 456 - Death and Dying: Family and Lifespan Perspectives (3 units)
Overview of death and dying, coping and adaptation as an individual and family experience from prenatal development through adulthood. Emphasis on both personal and professional applications.
Prerequisite(s): CHS 474 or HDFS 201 or HDFS 202 or PSY 101 or PSY 335 or SOC 101 ; Junior or Senior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of a range of grief and loss experiences.
2. apply family systems concepts to understanding individual and family experiences with grief, loss, death and dying.
3. demonstrate knowledge of grief as it relates to developmental stages across the lifespan (young children to older adults).
4. recognize individual, family, community and socio-cultural factors that may impede or facilitate experiences of grief and loss.
5. demonstrate understanding of characteristics of various contexts we experience (family, school, workplace, hospital, military, religious) which impede or facilitate dealing with losses and grief.
6. demonstrate knowledge of skills and responses for improving personal and professional interactions with bereaved individuals and families.
7. integrate course materials to develop high quality discussions about grief and loss issues with other students and the professor.
8. demonstrate skills in applying course information to better understand real life and case study situations.
9. develop suggestions for improving care at the end of life, and for work with the bereaved specific to one’s own community, neighborhood or family.
10. demonstrate increased appreciation that death, like birth, is a natural part of life.
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