Death Education

Organization of the Remainder of the Study 17

Types of Death Education Programs 26

Programs for Elementary/Middle/Secondary School Students 31

Findings Related to Ability to Cope with Death 54

Findings Related to Death Concerns 58

Findings Observed in Relation to Death Anxiety 64

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS 76

Death education consists of educational programs aimed at various age groups in order to teach students about dying. Such programs allow pupils

. . .
ember; (7) assessment of religious values of students and referral to a minister or religiously oriented counselor if religion is a focal point; (8) provision of printed materials for students; (9) awareness by counselors of how clients' death and bereavement concerns can rekindle their own unresolved losses; and (10) attempts by professionals to view the acceptance of death as a potentially positive event in the developmental process. Maglio (1990) has pointed out that not only do students need death education programs but so also do counselors. Specifically, Maglio notes that only recently have mental health professionals realized the importance and impact of death and death anxiety in the lives of individuals, particularly clients. He also states that few empirical studies have examined the levels of death anxiety among clients, much less among counselors or counselors-in-training. In an effort to determine the needs of counselors (many of whom are expected to implement death education programs at schools and universities) Maglio (1990) examined whether gender, age, and experience with death and/or suicide would influence reported levels of death anxiety, manifest anxiety, and attitudes toward suicide among counsel
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
Section Summary, Technical Education, Candlelighters Foundation, N=55 Significant, North Carolina, ABSTRACT Death, Adult Education, Waldman Davidshofer, Reichman Schwebel, Similarly McRae, death education, death dying, education programs, death education programs, death anxiety, fear death, effects death, education program, death education program, death dying scale, dying scale, special education, effects death education, fear death dying, college students,
Approximate Word count = 9722
Approximate Pages = 39 (250 words per page)