PSYC 3560 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Advance Healthcare Directive, Aids, Immunodeficiency
26 Jan 2013
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Death-awareness movement or thanatology focused on life and living considered from the perspective of death and dying. Education alone may not be sufficient to address the needs of individuals who are unable to cope with difficult personal experiences by themselves. Formal or planned death education is usually associated with programs of organized instruction of the type found in schools, colleges, graduate education, professional workshops, and volunteer training programs. Internet for the phrase virtual autopsy, you will be led to some sites that offer case examples of death scenarios, ask the reader to identify their possible causes, and then explain the actual causes of these deaths. Four central dimensions of death education, relating to what people know, how they feel, how they behave, and what they value are the: cognitive, affective, behavioural, and valuational dimensions of death education. Reflecting on values is closely related to many of the death-related challenges that confront us as we move forward in the 21st century.
