GC 540: Counseling Individuals With Life-threatening Illness

Course overview

This course provides a way to better understand the intricate issues and dynamics of various trajectories people might face amid life-threatening illness. Selective theoretical foundations are presented, along with brief anecdotal accounts of individuals facing serious diagnosis. Moreover, a phasic model is proffered depicting the pathways of life-threatening illness. The framework presented in the text can be described as holistic and family-inclusive. Counseling suggestions are offered for practitioners' consideration when working with gravely sick persons and their families/supportive others. As Doka himself remarks, the goal of the book is "to make the struggle with life-threatening illness a little more understandable and perhaps less lonely and frightening"(2009, p. 11). This CE Course is offered by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. See: https://aihcp.net/grief-counseling-ce-courses/