DYING |
perspectives on dying, health care interactions, family roles |
facing death, rituals, meaning, suffering, impact on treatment
decisions, afterlife, legacies |
self care, boundaries, compassion fatigue, burnout, attitudes
toward dying |
hospice, causes and patterns of death in Western societies,
influential theories |
global causes and patterns of death and lifestyle choices,
gender issues, impact of technology, influential theories, death
attitudes, role of complementary/alternative therapies |
END-OF-LIFE DECISION- MAKING |
advance care planning, ethnic issues, values and attitudes,
gender |
advance care planning, values and attitudes, beliefs and
doctrines, suffering, sanctity of life, quality of life |
communication, understanding patient's rights |
landmark legal cases, attitudes toward final disposition, evolution
of advance care planning |
options and choices, impact of medical technology, impact of media
and internet |
LOSS, GRIEF, & MOURNING |
factors affecting experience of and expression of grief,
impact on mourning practices |
meaning making, impact on mourning practices |
burnout, compassion fatigue, awareness of personal loss history,
coping strategies, self assessment, self care, boundaries, clinical
competency |
influential theories, post-death activities |
influential theories and models, post-death practices, media and
internet, intervention strategies |
ASSESSMENT & INTERVENTION |
advance care planning, cultural competence, communication, meaning
of death |
components of spiritual assessment, interventions, facilitating
integration of meaning and value of one's life |
appropriate components of assessments, communication, professional
liability and limitations, determining appropriate interventions in
concert with evidence and client characteristics, professional
responsibilities |
changes in determination of death, intervention theories prior to
1990 |
current assessment models, current therapeutic strategies,
controversy about efficacy of interventions, complicated grief,
gender considerations, pathologizing of grief |
TRAUMATIC DEATH |
cause of death, meaning making, advance care planning, ethnic
issues, values and attitudes, gender |
meaning-making, rituals, impact of religion |
appropriate training, professional response, commemorative
activities, vicarious traumatization |
previous major traumatic occurrences |
recent/anticipated future traumatic occurrences, impact of
communication systems, organ and tissue donation, current
approaches |
DEATH EDUCATION |
different death systems, diverse views about death |
diversity of religious beliefs, diversity of meaning making,
diversity of spirituality |
evaluation of knowledge, criteria for an effective educator,
methods, training specific to parameters of practice, media and
internet |
attitudes towards death, history of thanatology as a discipline,
historical eras |
advance care planning, influence of media and the internet, social
concerns, components of death education |