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Course Overview: This course is part of the Ethereal Doctorate Degree Program in Thanatology at the School of Grief Education at AITU.
It is a 6-hour semester course that must be completed within 6 weeks.
This course focuses on the aspects of grief and loss related to all known age groups:
Perinatal
Infancy, Toddler, and Preschool
Elementary School-Aged Children
Tweens and Teens
Emerging Adults
Young Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Retirement and Reinvention
Older Adults
Course Assignments: There are 23 assignments for which the student has one mandatory book as material.
Course Objectives:
Review biological impacts, psychological experiences, and social contexts of grief.
Trace the evolution of classical grief theory to the task- and stage-based grief theories of the modern era.
Describe postmodern grief theories including the dual process model (DPM), meaning-making, continuing bonds, disenfranchised loss, ambiguous and non-finite loss.
Explore cultural impacts and the role of ritual in coping with loss.
Provide social and historical context for grief therapeutics.
Discuss concepts of mindfulness, attachment, and cultural humility and their intersection with grief work.
Utilize the perspective that loss is a normal and necessary part of life.
American International Theism University is a Religious institution that meets the requirements found in Section 1005.06(1)(f), Florida Statutes and Rule 6E-5.001, Florida Administrative Code are not under the jurisdiction or purview of the Commission for Independent Education and are not required to obtain licensure.
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