PT 460

PASTORAL CARE OF THE DYING PATIENT

cOURSE INFORMATION

Welcome to Pastoral Care of the Dying Patient. This comprehensive CE course provides a very comprehensive overview of studies, research, and dynamics related to the care of the dying patient. I'm pleased to offer you this course. This is an exciting course. This course identifies the spiritual and emotional needs of dying patients. It presents means for pastoral care, spiritual guidance and support to meet those needs. This course will provide practical, specific intervention strategies in grief, dying and death.

Our personal philosophy about life and people impact upon our relationship with others. These assumptions about people and their motives influences how we see clients, the philosophy and theory of counseling we use, the style of therapeutic relationships we develop, the kind of counseling goals we help clients set, and the interventions we use to help clients meet their goals. Upon completion of this course, students are awarded 40 contact hours of continuing education credits. Course Code: PT 460.

This course is particularly designed for those who would like to apply for Certification as a Pastoral Care Thanatologist with the American Institute of Health Care professionals

Instructor/Course Author:  Juan Kenigstein, Ph.D, M.Ed., FT, FAAGC, GC-C

Link to: Resume
Email: kenigstein@aol.com

TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course as well as all of the courses in the Pastoral Thanatology program. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an "incomplete" will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.

TEXTBOOKS:

There are three (3) required textbooks for this course.

Book 1: Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Practical Theology in a Multidisciplinary Context. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Edited by David Willows and John Swinton. Foreword by Don Browning: 2000. ISBN # 1-85302-892-4.

Book 2: Working With The Dying And Bereaved. Routledge, Edited by Pauline Sutcliffe, Guinevere Tufnell & Ursula Cornish, New York: NY, 1998: ISBN # 0-415-91994-0.

Book 3: The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. 7th Edition. By DeSpelder & Strickland: 2007. ISBN # 0-07-292096-3.

AIHCP Online Bookstore: AIHCP provides an online bookstore stocked with all of the required textbooks, and/or materials required for its CE courses. To purchase this book online, click the access store link, go to the table of categories, right upper hand corner, and click on "Pastoral Thanatology." Access AIHCP Store: click here

 

Optional Book:

About the Book

If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing with human mortality and loss.  The field of thanatology - the study of death and dying - is a complex, multidisciplinary area that encompasses the range of human experiences, emotions, expectations, and realities. 

In the Handbook of Thanatology, The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) has compiled the most authoritative volume in the field, which provides for the first time a single source of up-to-date scholarship, research, and practice implications.  The Handbook is organized into seven parts, the first six of which correspond to the key areas of knowledge and training in this field: Dying; End-of-Life Decision Making; Loss, Grief and Mourning; Assessment and Intervention; Traumatic Death; Death Education. Within each of these six parts, a series of chapters explore central themes and issues: Culture/Socialization; Religion/Spirituality; Historical/Contemporary Perspectives; Life Span; Family/Systems; Ethical/Legal Issues.  The remaining two chapters of the final section - Part 7 - examine Professional Issues and Resources in Thanatology.
This above texts may be found at your local bookstores. Your local bookstores most often will order them as a special order for you, or you may purchase this book online from:  Amazon.com   www.amazon.com

 

GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 40 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Academy of Grief Counseling and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score will be presented.

BOARD APPROVALS: The American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. is a licensed Continuing Education Provider in the State of California, Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP 15595. Access information

Additional CE Option:  this course is co-sponsored by CCMS, Inc., which is an approved provider with NBCC (National Board of Certified Counselors). CCMS, Inc., is also a continuing education provider with NAADAC,, CASAC (California), OASAS, the states of Wyoming, Montana, Arkansas, Idaho and many others.  CCMS, Inc. offers our students the option of applying for and receiving a CE certificate for this course. Their CE certificate means that your course will show evidence of NBCC approval, as well as the other approvals which CCMS, Inc. provides. The fees for CE certificates with course approvals from CCMS, Inc. are very reasonable. Full information is provided in our online classrooms for enrolled students.

Online Classroom Resouces and Tools

* Message Boards: each specialty program has an area to "post" on the message board. Students may post messages at anytime. Posting allows students to converse with those in the same specialty practice and to discuss issues/course content etc. Instructions for posting are provided in the online classrooms.

* Chat Rooms: each specialty has it's own unique "chat room." Inside of the classroom there is a schedule for "chat time" with students in your specific specialty practice. Participating in "chats" is voluntary. The chat sessions are used as means for students to come together and discuss course content or anything related to the courses and/or certification specialty.

* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as "open book" tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.

* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page "Student Resource Center." The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.

* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.

* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor's online resume/biography, as well as your instructor's specific contact information.

* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional "readings" and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand and describe "terminal illness"
2. Understand the Dying person and his/her family.
3. Demonstrate ability to identify and discuss the presenting problem and possible approaches to use.
4. Demonstrate basic ability to follow the client during the initial stages of counseling.
5. Understand and describe the Hospice Program of Care.
6. Understand critical dialogue in practical theology.
7. Clarify theological understandings.
8. Identify spiritual dimensions of pastoral care.
9. Demonstrate the art of theological reflection.
10. Understand practical wisdom in practical theology.
11. Understand social action in practical theology.
12. Understand story telling in practical theology.
13. Evaluate your own personal feelings about death.
14. Discuss the topic of death, thereby opening up previously avoided lines of communication with family and friends.
15. Have an understanding of the grief process.
16. Develop new skills to understand and communicate with terminally ill and bereaved individuals.
17. Consider the factors affecting individuals' grief reactions.
18. Have an understanding of the forms and causes of unresolved grief.
19. Understand the specific interventions for the bereaved.
20. Understand the benefits of funerals and how can they can be adapted to suit the needs mourners.
21. Understand the dying patient.
22. Understand the patient's experience of the living-dying interval.
23. Understand the dying patient's reactions to the approach of death.
24. Have an understanding of the coping mechanisms that can be used to handle this threat.
25. Identify the guidelines for working with dying patients.
26. Have an understanding of attitudes towards patients.
27. Communicate with patients.
28. Select proper interventions.
29. Understand the treatment of pain.
30. Evaluate the roles of clergy and ancillary personnel.
31. Understand the reactions and effects of terminal illness on the entire family system.
32. Identify the stresses created when the dying family member is a child.
33. Challenge systems that continue to make our society one, which is death denying.
34. Explain common reactions to loss and suggestions for coping with it.
35. Know the factors that contribute to the intensity of grief reactions.
36. Know about ethical issues and decision-making.
37. Have an understanding of the caregiver's stress from working with the dying and bereaved.
38. Become more motivated to live now, take risks, and accomplish more.

COURSE CONTENT:

A brief abstract of content:

1. A family systems perspective on loss, recovery and resilience.
2. The relevance of tears: reconstructing the mourning process from a systemic perspective.
3. Death of a parent in a family with young children: working with the aftermath.
4. Death of a pupil in school.
5. On the brink - managing suicidal teenagers.
6. A 'dysfunctional triangle" or love in all the right places: social context in the therapy of a family living with AIDS.
7. Working systematically with older people and their families who have 'come to grief.
8. The Emergence of Practical Theology.
9. Practical Theology and the Art of Theological Reflection.
10.  Practical Theology in Search of Practical wisdom.
11. Practical Theology in Critical Dialogue.
12. Practical Theology in Social Action.
13. Practical Theology as Story
    
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