COUNSELING THE DYING PATIENT

Masters Degree in Grief Counseling & Thanatology

GRF 550

Breyer State University
Instructor: Juan Kenigstein, PH.D, M.ED., GC-C

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Our personal philosophy about life and people impact upon our relationship with others. These assumptions about people and their motives influences how we see clients, the philosophy and theory of counseling we use, the style of therapeutic relationships we develop, the kind of counseling goals we help clients set, and the interventions we use to help clients meet their goals.

APPROVAL: This course is approved by the American Academy of Grief Counseling for 75 hours of continuing education toward Fellowship Status and/or recertification.

CERTIFICATION: If you successfully complete the first three courses in the curriculum, you are eligble to receive Certification by the American Academy of Grief Counseling as a Certified Grief Counselor.

1). GRF 500- Death & Dying I - 5 hrs.
2). GRF 550- Counseling the Dying Patient - 5 hrs.
3). GRF 600- Grief Counseling - 5 hrs.

TIME FRAME: This is a four-semester hour course. This course is allotted 15 weeks of time. Students must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the 15-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your text book(s) have arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless the student has good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be awarded 4 semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: There are two (2) required textbooks for this course.

Book 1: Working With The Dying And Bereaved. By Pauline Sutcliffe, Giunevere Tufnell, and Ursula Cornish. Routledge. New York, NY. 10001: ISBN # 0-415-91994-0.

Book 2: CLINICAL DIMENSIONS OF ANTICIPATORY MOURNING, Research Press 2612 North Mattis Avenue Champaign Illinois 61822: 2000. ISBN # 0-87822-380-0.

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GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

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

GRADING COMPOSITION:

Five activities                                      50%    
Self evaluation                                      5%
Research Report                                  20%
Discovery & Intention Statement           15%
One Case Study                                  10%

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: There are several written requirements for this course. Please go to the assignment section in the classroom for more details.

 

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

GOALS: The aim of education about death, dying, and bereavement is to contribute to general education as a basis for personal development and responsible social participation. It must also contribute to the specific education of those who, as a result of personal or professional circumstances, are closely associated with death, dying and bereavement.

METHODS: Readings from textbook, professional books and journals. Self-awareness/exploration activities.

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

1). Understand and describe their personal counseling philosophy.
2). Identify, understand and describe approaches, which blend with their personal philosophy about life and people.
3). Understand and describe "terminal illness."
4). Discuss and practice therapeutic interventions.
5). Understand and be able to formulate an effective treatment plan.
6). Understand the Dying person and his/her family.
7). Demonstrate ability to identify and discuss the presenting problem and possible approaches to use.
8). Demonstrate basic ability to follow the client during the initial stages of counseling.
9). Understand and describe the Hospice Program of Care.

COURSE OUTLINE:

1). A family systems perspective on loss, recovery and resilience.
2). The relevance of tears: reconstructing the mourning process from a systemic perspective.
3). Death of a parent in a family with young children: working with the aftermath.
4). Death of a pupil in school.
5). On the brink - managing suicidal teenagers.
6). A 'dysfunctional triangle" or love in all the right places: social context in the therapy of a family living with AIDS.
7). Working systematically with older people and their families who have 'come to grief'.
8). On the subject of Life and Death.
9). Need for Alternative Model.
10). The Hospice Movement.
11). Cancer and Aids.
12). Personal-Professional Use of Self.
13). The Occupational Therapy Process -- Assessment.
14). The Occupational Therapy Process -- Treatment Planning.
15). The Interdisciplinary Team.
16). Religious Practices and Funeral Rites.
17). Occupational Therapy Marketing and Research.

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