GC 570: Current Topics in Death, Dying & Bereavement

Course overview

This course is designed to provide the health care professional who deals directly with dying, death and bereavement an overview of the topics, trends, research and issues that are current in the field of thanatology today. Through a series of selected articles, you will have the opportunity to explore and evaluate medical, ethical, emotional, spiritual and cultural topics that constitute ongoing issues in this field. Topics are centered around new definitions of death; dying and death across the life cycle (children, teens, the elderly); the dying process; ongoing ethical questions connected with dying and death; contemporary trends in funerals and burials rites; and current concepts in the grieving process. Students studying pastoral thanatology, grief counseling, and funeral services will especially benefit by this course. The course presupposes that the student is practicing in one of these fields and would like to benefit from a summary and review of the current debates and issues of these fields. This CE Course is offered by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. See: https://aihcp.net/grief-counseling-ce-courses/