The purpose of this
assignment is to conduct a review of the professional literature (peer-review
journal articles) and describe efforts to teach and counsel children and
adolescents about grief.
write a report on this topic based on a review
of at least 5 peer-review journal articles.
Your paper should be 5-7 pages long (excluding
cover page and bibliography). Please choose your words carefully and
thoughtfully and consider each paper as an opportunity to improve your writing
skills.
Include the following information in your report:
1) A summary of what you learned from this research
2) How can you use this information as a future health educator
(or other type of service professional)?
3) How does what you learned from these articles relate to your
own experience or other outside reading/research that you have done?
4) How does the information from these research studies relate to
the information in the “Last Dance” book?
5) What questions or concerns do you have based on what you
learned from these studies?
6) What were your own experiences with death education in school
when you were growing up, what would you change and why?
7) What are your recommendations for improving death education and
bereavement services for children and adolescents?
8) If you were instructed by the principal of your school to
develop a working group on improving death education in your school, how would
you go about forming this group, who would you include and why, what would be
your main goals, how would you measure these goals?
9) Identify and describe one local and one
national organization involved in promoting death education among children and
teens and how you could involve them in your school program.
