MIN 813 Pastoral Care and Counseling in Grief, Loss and Crisis
This course enables students to learn to understand and identify the process and progress of how people deal with loss in their lives. Students learn how to guide a person through the grief process and to aid the individual to readjust and grow. Attention is given to understanding issues of anger, depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal, along with loss of hope and faith. The course looks at the role of the chaplain in times of crisis. Students learn how to provide counsel to those who have endured a crisis or trauma. Attention will be given to the emotional, spiritual, relational, and physical symptoms that may occur in the aftermath of crisis. 4 credits.