HHS111 Healing Our Spirit: Grief and Loss (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health (NRMIH)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
Grief and loss have been identified as two of the major causes of mental, spiritual and physical illness within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community. This subject firstly examines the causes and consequences of individual, family and community grief and loss. It then explores and discusses the healing process including de-colonisation and the significance of healing for achieving self-determination and strength within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It examines the issues of marginalisation of minority groups and the role that they play towards the feelings of grief, loss and community anger over that process.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2013.Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: HHS111
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Health Science (Mental Health) course, and Indigenous students enrolled in the welfare program
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
define the terms grief and loss;
describe the stages of the grieving process and why it is an important part of the healing process;
demonstrate an understanding of the effects of unresolved generational grief and loss;
describe how generational grief has impacted upon their communities, families and themselves;
develop and apply their own healing process;
utilise personal and professional strategies in counselling and the referral of people experiencing grief and loss;
understand the role of colonisation upon the indigenous community and discuss what de-colonisation is and how it can empower the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community;
draw links between emotional, spiritual and psychological healing and self-determination;
examine how the government controls minorities through marginalisation;
understand how marginalisation and isolation lead to dysfunction in communities.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Concept of grief and loss; stages of the grieving process; generational grief; marginalisation and isolation; role of colonisation upon the indigenous community effects of unresolved generational grief and loss; professional and personal strategies in counselling; referral of people experiencing grief and loss; the role of de-colonisation principles as a tool of empowerment. emotional, spiritual and psychological healing and self-determination; the role of a mentor and the value of debriefing.
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 4 day residential school.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.