OMSW 622 - Coping with Grief and Loss: Across the Life Span

3 hours.
3 Credits

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge base necessary for clinical social work practice with the range of losses individuals experience across the life span with a focus on racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within the urban community. Students will become familiar with the impact of loss on the grief, mourning and bereavement processes resulting from natural, catastrophic and traumatic causes from clinical and theoretical perspectives; utilizing the DSM 5 and Social work developmental theories, and best practice models.