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2018-2019 Vincennes University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FNRL 230 - Psychological Aspects of Grief and Death


3 hrs (Sem II)
This course is a general introduction to development, object relationship, and loss. It includes a comparative psychology of grief, clinical thanatology and reaction to loss. Study will be made of the practical aspects of bereavement, reactions to untimely death, mourning and adaptation, the child’s concept of death and reaction to death in the family. Included are approaches to counseling applicable to the grief situation and significance of the role of the counselor in post-death, pre- and post-funeral activities. 3 lecture hours.