Welcome to Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning, a Doctorate
Level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Doctorate in Grief
Counseling. I'm pleased to offer you this course. “Anticipatory
mourning is the phenomenon encompassing seven generic operations
(grief and mourning, coping, interaction, psychosocial reorganization,
planning, balancing conflicting demands, and facilitating an appropriate
death) that, within a context of adaptational demands caused by
experiences of loss and trauma, is stimulated in response to the
awareness of life-threatening or terminal illness in oneself or
a significant other and the recognition of associated losses in
the past, present, and future” (Rando 2000).
This is a six-semester
hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must
complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by
the end of the ten-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 you have
good justification. Upon successful completion of this course,
you will be awarded six semester hours of credit. You may accelerate,
but may not complete this course in less than four weeks.
There is one (1)
required textbook for this course.
Book 1: Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and
Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and their
Caregivers. Edited by Therese A. Rando. Research Press: 2000.
ISBN #
0-534-195-512.
There are no examinations
for this course.
The grading scale for
this course is as follows:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
Below 70% = Fail
4 Critiques/Summaries 20%
Self evaluation 5%
Research Report 20%
Discovery & Intention Statement 5%
10 Activities 50%
TOTAL 100%
The aim
of education about anticipatory mourning is to learn the appropriate
interventions that can be used to prevent problems in post death
mourning.
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.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1). Describe and assess anticipatory mourning.
2). List, describe and distinguish the six dimensions of anticipatory
mourning.
3). Create meaning in the face of illness.
4). Provide a conceptual basis for understanding what it means
to “cope”, especially with life threatening illness
and dying.
5). Understand the grief in dying individuals.
6). Promote healthy anticipatory mourning.
7). Understand the challenges for professionals and caregivers
in anticipatory mourning.
8). Assess prenatal anticipatory morning.
9). Identify and assess the limits of anticipatory mourning.
10). Design a personal strategy towards an appropriate death.
11). Distinguish among the various dying trajectories.
12). Explain the factors influencing the social role of the dying
patient and to create an ideal model.
13). Summarize the essential strategies for pain management.
14). Asses the benefits and risks of alternative therapies.
15). Understand traumatic stress in anticipatory mourning.
16). Describe the emotional, physical, and ethical components
of organ donation.
17). Asses anticipatory mourning on individuals with chronic illness,
18). Assess anticipatory mourning in the human-animal bond.
19). Assess anticipatory mourning in terminal illness.
1). Anticipatory Mourning: A Review and Critique
of the Literature.
2). The Six Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning.
3). Re-Creating Meaning in the Face of Illness.
4). Anticipatory Mourning and the Transition of Fading Away.
5). On the Experience of Traumatic Stress in Anticipatory and
Post Death Mourning.
6). Anticipatory Mourning and Coping with Dying: Similarities,
Differences, and Suggested Guidelines for Helpers.
7). Denial and the limits of Anticipatory Mourning.
8). Towards an Appropriate Death.
9). Grief in Dying Persons.
10). Promoting Healthy Anticipatory Mourning.
11). Anticipatory Mourning: Challenges for Professional and Volunteer
Caregivers
12). Anticipatory Mourning and Prenatal Diagnosis.
13). Dealing with the Chronic/Terminal Illness or Disability of
a Child: Anticipatory Mourning
14). Anticipatory Mourning in HIV/AIDS.
15). Mourning Psychosocial Loss: Anticipatory Mourning in Alzheimer’s,
ALS, and Irreversible Coma.
16). Advance Directives and Anticipatory Mourning.
17). Anticipatory Mourning and Organ Donation.
18). Anticipatory Mourning and the Human-Animal Bond.
