Grief/Bereavement Symposium I

Bachelors Degree in Grief Counseling & Bereavement Education

GRF 475

Breyer State University

Instructor:

Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, DCH, RN, CS, CH-C
Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner
Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Certified Grief Counselor

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Bachelors Degree Program Symposium I course in Grief Counseling & Thanatology. This is the first major symposium course in the degree program. This is a twenty-semester hour course of study and is focused on Research and Research Outcomes in Grief Counseling. This course provides you the opportunity to study and assess methodologies for grief counseling and understand application and potential for successes in clinical practice. This is a comprehensive course and you are provided the option of extending the ten-week time-frame to fifteen weeks, with permission from me.

This course is designed to be self-paced with one-to-one faculty mentoring. You are required to proceed through comprehensive reading assignments, course written assignments and produce a scholarly paper on a related topic of their choice. You are awarded twenty semester hours of college credits for successful completion of this course.

TEXTBOOKS: The required textbook for this course is:

Book 1: Handbook of Bereavement Research. By Stroebe, Hansson, Stroebe and Schut. American Psychological Association; Washington DC: 2001. ISBN # 1-55798-736-X.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D.,DCH, MBA, RN,CS, CNAA, FACHE - is President of Dominick L. Flarey and Associates, a health care consulting and education firm, located in northeast Ohio. He has held positions as a certified nurse practitioner, associate administrator of patient care, chief operating office and administrator in acute care hospitals. He is Dean of Nursing and Alternative Health Care Programs at Canyon College, and lectures for Cross Country Seminars national seminar company based in Nashville. He was an executive consultant to a national "big 6" accounting firm's health care practice and was a service line administrator and consultant for case management for another national consulting firm. He holds a BSN, an MBA, and Doctorates in nursing administration and management. He is a certified adult nurse practitioner and certified clinical hypnotherapist. He is also certified as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Washington, DC. He lectures extensively across the country on Management, including models, systems, outcomes and legal/ethical issues. He also lectures nationally on the topic of Biopsychiatry. His clinical practice includes hypnotherapies for Grief and Bereavement, care of adults with depression, anxiety disorders and panic disorder. He uses hypnotherapies, guided meditation and visualization in his work with those grieving. He is the President of Breyer State University.

He is co-author/editor of two textbooks on Case Management (see below) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, "Nursing Case Management: Managing the Process of Patient Care."
Dr. Flarey is also certified in nursing administration advanced. He is a board certified health care executive by the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is a Fellow in the college. He also holds national certification in managed care from the Professional Education Institute. He is a Certified Medical-Legal Consultant.

He is editor-in-chief of JONA's (Journal of Nursing Administration) Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Nursing Administration, Seminars for Nurse Managers, Case Management: Managing the Process of Patient Care, and Nursing Outcomes. He has authored over 50 published articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Flarey is editor/author of the book, "Redesigning Nursing Care Delivery: Transforming Our Future," published by Lippincott/Raven publishers. He is also co-editor/author of the following books by Aspen Publishers: "Reengineering Nursing and Health Care: The Handbook for Organizational Transformation," winner of a 1995 AJN book of the year award, "The Handbook of Nursing Case Management: Health Care Delivery in a World of Managed Care," "Case Studies in Case Management," "Health Care Outcomes: Collaborative, Path-Based Approaches," and "Cardiovascular Outcomes: Collaborative, Path-Based Approaches," and "Process-Centered Healthcare Organizations."

INSTRUCTOR CONTACT: There are many avenues of access if you need to contact me. You may contact me anytime you have questions, would like clarification, etc. Your interaction with me is one-on-one and this is highly beneficial as you proceed through the course. I am available by email, fax and telephone. Telephone appointments are scheduled in advance.

GRADING: Examinations are written and objective type or short answer. The number of questions per examination varies. The grading scale is:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

You must attain an overall score of at least 75% to pass this course.

TAKING EXAMS: Examinations are taken online via the Breyer State University website. Once you have registered for this program, you will receive instructions on accessing and taking the examinations. There are three examinations for this course, two learning portfolio examinations and one comprehensive final examination that is objective-type. Portfolio examinations are a combination of independent study and response to specific questions and some chapter analysis.

GETTING STARTED: As soon as you receive your textbooks for the course, you may begin your course of study. In the classroom section is a course outline. Be sure to review it as you progress through the course. Once you have registered for the course, I will send to you a letter of introduction with more explanations and the course assignments.

Online Chat Room: You will "meet" with me and other students in the online chat room. Access to the chat room is via the "Grief Counseling and Thanatology" classroom, located at the website. Chats are pre-scheduled and all students receive notification via email as to when a chat session is scheduled. Here, you have an opportunity to participate in group, online discussions, including question/answer sessions, with your peers. This feature also provides you with networking opportunities.

COURSE CONTENT: This course will cover the following issues.

1). Concepts/Issues in Contemporary Research in Bereavement.
2). Overview of Scientific Study of Bereavement.
3). Grief, Bonds and Relationships.
4). Measurement Issues in the Study of Grief.
5). Dynamics of Ethical Decision Making in Bereavement Research.
6). Bereavement Experiences and Personal Growth.
7). Developmental Context of Childhood Grief and Re-grief.
8). Bereavement During Adolescence.
9). Parental Response to Child Loss.
10). Bereavement and Old Age.
11). Grief From an Evolutionary Perspective.
12). Cultural Differences in Grief.
13). Grief in Interpersonal Perspective.
14). Family Bereavement.
15). Risk Factors in Bereavement Outcome.
16). Models of Coping with Bereavement.
17). Myths of Coping with Loss.
18). Processes of Grieving.
19). Assessment of Coping with Loss.
20). Physiological Indices of Functioning in Bereavement.
21). Grief and Emotion.
22). Disclosing and Sharing Emotion.
23). Ruminative Coping and Adjustment.
24). Revised Coping Theory.
25). Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacological Interventions.
26). Traumatic Grief.
27). Grief and Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
28). Physiological Effects of Bereavement.
29). Efficacy of Bereavement Interventions.
30). Future Directions for Research.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Understand the research process and its' application to grief counseling.
2). Relate methodologies/therapies to one's clinical practice of grief counseling.
3). Provide a comprehensive overview of the major theories of grieving.
4). Understand the grieving process through the life span.
5). Provide critical analysis of outcomes related to research in grief counseling and therapies.
6). Understand the physiological dimensions of grief and bereavement.
7). Define the most effective interventions for use in counseling the grieved.
8). Abstract published research to provided references for effective therapies.
9). Conduct independent study and research related to grief counseling and thanatology.
10). Define issues for future investigation and research.

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