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Oct 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Edgewood College Catalog
Thanatology, Children, Adolescents, and Family Grief Support Graduate Certificate
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Designed for people who work with children and adolescents, this certificate examines dying, death, loss, and grief in the context of the family, with special emphasis on supporting children and adolescents. This certificate is appropriate for child life professionals, medical caregivers, social workers, child and adolescent psychologists, and employees or volunteers with family grief centers or grief camps.
Learning Objectives:
- Discern, reflect upon, and evaluate student’s own relationship with death and grief, both as an individual and a member of society
- Examine and evaluate the role of the family as the unit of care, and the ways family dynamics impact children and adolescents with respect to dying, death, and grief.
- Evaluate the research literature on the attitudes and responses of children and teens to death, loss, and grief
- Examine current research and literature on suicide among adults (prevention, assessment, intervention, post-intervention, postvention, special populations, ethnic/cultural groups, and global context)
- Evaluate evidence-based approaches to assessment, clinical intervention, treatment models, and safety planning for adults, children, and teens
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Program Requirements
All certificates are 12 credits, and all require THN600: Introduction to Thanatology or its equivalent (after consultation with the program director, this course might be waived). THN600 need be taken only once and can be applied to subsequent certificates, or students may choose a fourth course in its stead.
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