Topics covered include how funeral directors can facilitate grief coping, and the characteristics of the helping funeral director. Students will examine crisis intervention, aftercare, a funeral director’s own grief, and funeral service stress. Also included will be the varying definitions of counseling, the types and styles of counseling, grief counseling, the principles and procedures of counseling, the student will become more familiar with theorists such as Worden, Wolfelt, Rogers, and Stone. Prerequisite: PSY 120
