Postgraduate: DP9004W
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
Undergraduate
- Describe the cultural, theological and clinical processes of grieving, mourning and bereavement associated with life transitions, loss, death and dying;
- Identify the factors involved in safe ethical pastoral care for others;
- Articulate theological insights and personal frameworks of meaning, that inform the practice of pastoral spiritual care for those who are suffering;
- Develop strategies of care that adequately attend to the grieving processes of individuals and congregations, including the use of appropriate rituals and community supports.
Postgraduate
- Describe the cultural, theological and clinical processes of grieving, mourning and bereavement associated with life transitions, loss, death and dying;
- Identify the factors involved in safe ethical pastoral care for others;
- Articulate theological insights and personal frameworks of meaning, that inform the practice of pastoral spiritual care for those who are suffering;
- Develop strategies of care that adequately attend to the grieving processes of individuals and congregations, including the use of appropriate rituals and community supports;
- Demonstrate the capacity to integrate theology and practice in pastoral and spiritual care.
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Assessment
Undergraduate
- Book review (1,250 words) (25%)
- Case study presentation (1,250 words) (25%)
- Critical essay (2,500 words) (50%)
Postgraduate
- Book review (2,000 words) (25%)
- Case study (2,000 words) (25%)
- Critical essay (4,000 words) (50%)
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Recommended reading
- Boss, P. Loss, trauma & resilience: therapeutic work with ambiguous loss. London: Norton, 2006.
- Doka, K. Living with grief: before and after the death. Washington: Hospice foundation, 2011.
- Evans, A. Is God still at the Bedside: the medical, ethical and pastoral issues of death and dying. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.
- Gott, M & Ingleton, C. Living with aging and dying. New York: Oxford Uni Press, 2011.
- Karaban, R. Complicated Losses, difficult Deaths: a practical guide for ministering to grievers. San Jose: Resource Publications, 2000.
- Kellehear, A. Death and Dying in Australia. Melbourne: Oxford Uni Press, 2000.
- Kelley, M. Grief: Contemporary theory and the practice of ministry. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.
- Musgrave, B & McGettigan, N (eds). Spiritual and Psychological aspects of Illness: dealing with sickness, loss, dying and death. New York: Paulist, 2010.
- Oates, W. Grief, Transition and Loss: a pastor’s practical guide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.
- Swinton, J & Payne R. Living well and dying faithfully: Christian Practices for end of life care. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
- Wright, N. Recovering from Losses in life. Grand Rapids: Morgan & Scott, 2006.
Set texts recommended for purchase: Nil