Welcome to the combined Bachelors/Masters degree program in Pastoral
Thanatology, offered by Breyer State University. You have made
a wise decision to pursue study and acquire the knowledge and
skills needed to practice in this growing pastoral and behavioral
health specialty. This area of specialty practice is growing all
the time and many well trained professionals and pastoral ministers
are needed throughout the world to provide support, care and ministry
to the dying. Obtaining the credential from a quality program
is essential to capitalize on this career and ministry opportunity.
You have made an excellent choice for your continuing education
and skill attainment. I am sure you will be pleased with our degree
program's course of study.
This comprehensive college-based course is developed to provide
learners with an understanding of anticipatory mourning, what
it is, how to deal most effectively with it and other related
issues, including research outcomes. It is a comprehensive course
and requires significant learning. It is foundational to the degree
program and prepares you to work therapeutically and most effectively
with all dimensions and presentations of anticipatory mourning.
This is a eight-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 textbook has 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 eight-semester hours of credit.
There is one (1)
required textbook for this course. Death, Mourning & Caring.
Robert Marrone. Wadsworth- Thompson Learning. 2004. ISBN
#
0-534-19551-2.
Order your book as soon as possible so that you
can begin your course of study.
Examinations are taken online via the Breyer
State University web site. Once you have registered for this program,
you will receive instructions on accessing and taking the examinations.
There is one comprehensive examination for this
course, and one course paper.
Examinations are 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 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. 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.
Dominick
L. Flarey, Ph.D., 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."
Upon
registration, you will be given my e-mail address. I am available
periodically through e-mail, so please e-mail me any questions
that may occur. That is why I am here. I will do everything to
help you as much as possible. Please do not wait until the end
of the class to try to get help. It will be too late. Anytime
your grade falls below C, I will try to contact you about it.
If I do not, please do not hesitate to contact me through e-mail.
As soon as
you receive your textbooks for the course, you may begin your
course of study. Once you have
registered for the course, I will send to you a letter of introduction
with more explanations and the course assignments.
Upon completion
of this course, you will be able to:
1). Understand the concept of invisible death and the attitudes
and behaviors around it.
2). Gain an historical perspective of current death practices.
3). Discuss demographic, psychological, sociological and economic
factors which contribute to how death
is dealt with and processed.
4). Discuss statistics and trend patterns in death occurrence.
5). Understand the application of the dying trajectories concept.
6). Discuss how age, stress and culture influence death.
7). Discuss theories of death and dying, stages and cycles.
8). Explore near death experiences and interpretations of them.
9). Understand the final step in the living/dying process.
10). Discuss grief, loss and mourning and reactions that people
experience.
11.) Identify and discuss emotions experienced in coping with loss.
12.) Use developmental frameworks to assess children's and adolescent's
ability to perceive death
13.) Understand the needs of terminally ill children.
14.) Assist children who are terminally ill or grieving the death
of others.
15). View death from the perspective of the adolescent developmental
framework.
16). Discuss suicide and attempted suicide among the youth.
17). Understand the meaning of death of the adult's parent.
18). Understand the experience of loss of a child to parent and
family.
19). View impending death of the aged from developmental frameworks.
20). Define the impact of death of spouse, children or pets to
elderly persons.
21). Define social effects of aging.
22). Discuss practical procedures and tasks concerning death.
23). Discuss ethical and medical-legal concepts regarding the right
to die.
24). Discuss historical views of how people people bury the dead.
25). Understand religious and secular practices regarding burial
of the dead.
A brief abstract of content:
1). Attitudes toward death and dying.
2). Dying and the near death experience.
3). The work of mourning.
4). Death, dying and the child.
5). Death, suicide and youth.
6). Death, adulthood and parenting.
7). Aging, mourning and the search for meaning.
8). Caring for the dying.
9). Preparing for death.
10). Honoring the dead.
11). Comforting the living.
GRF 150, GRF 200 and PT 250 are pre-requisites
for this course.
If
you have any questions regarding this program, you may address
them to adm@breyerstate.com.
An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.
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