Course Overview: This course is part of the Ethereal Doctorate Degree in Pro-gram in Bereavement at the School of Grief Education of AITU.

It is a 6-hour semester course that must be completed within 6 weeks. “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).

Course Assignments: There is one mandatory book and no audio visual materials available to the student. Also they may make use of the materials from the complete program and what they seem appropriate and relevant material.

Course Objectives: The aim is to learn about anticipatory mourning, to learn how to recognize signals indicating possible problems in post-death mourning, as well as learning appropriate interventions that can be used to prevent the risk of those problems.