GC 420 – Course Evaluation Form

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, INC.

Thank you for completing your Continuing Education Course and Congratulations! The final step is your completion of the GC 420 – Course Evaluation. This will take a few minutes of your time. You must complete the following course evaluation to receive your credit hours and your certificate of course completion.

Please complete the evaluation below and be sure to complete all required information. When finished, be sure to click the submit button. Your score and credits will be recorded once your completed evaluation is received. We will then prepare your CE certificate and e-mailed to you in a PDF format.

Keep in mind when filling out the evaluation to list your first and last name in the appropriate blank because that is how your name will be listed on the certificate for the course. We do not list titles, or degrees on any of our certificates but only the first and last name. If any errors occur on the certificate due to improper listing on this form then it is the student’s responsibility for a new certificate. A $5 fee to process a new certificate will be charged in these cases for a new certificate. So please make sure your name is correct and the postal address is accurate and up to date.

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Please rate questions 1 through 12 using this rating scale: 5 = Excellent, 4 = Very Good, 3 = Good, 2 = Fair, 1 = Poor.
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Questions 15 Through 20: Please respond with a "Yes" or "No."
Question 15 - Was The Course Content Free Of Bias?:*
Question 16 - Before Completing The Course Did You Identify The Necessity For Education On The Topic/Subject To Improve Or Enhance Your Professional Practice?:*
Question 17 - Has What You Think Or Feel About This Topic/Subject Changed?*
Question 18 - I Would Recommend This Course To Other Professionals:*
Question 19 - Are You More Confident In Providing Patient Care After Completing This Course?:*
Question 20 - Was Self-Paced Learning Effective For You:?*
Please read the section below and answer the following questions.
Question 21 - Are You A Licensed Health Care Professional In Any Of The Following States That Report CE’s Through CE Broker (Www.Cebroker.Com) In Which The Course You Have Taken From AIHCP Is Listed As An Approved Course For You For CE Credits?*
Question 22 - Are You A Licensed RN/LPN/APN In Any State in the United States (including DC)?*
Question 23 - Are You a Licensed RN/LPN/APN in the State of Florida or the District of Columbia (Washington DC)?*
Question 24 - Are You a Licensed RN/LPN/APN in Any of the Following States That Report CE's to CE Broker - AK, GA, KY, NM, SC, or WV*
If you answered (Yes) to any of the above questions, or if you Report CE’s Through CE Broker (Www.Cebroker.Com) please provide your nursing or professional license number as well as your state you are licensed in. You must provide your license number in the area provided below. This is mandated by the Nursing Boards that have given us our CE Approved Provider Status. We cannot issue you a CE certificate or CE hours unless you provide your license number below. Thank you.
Instructions: Using the scale below, please respond to the following evaluation statements.
A- Agree Strongly, B – Agree Somewhat, C – Disagree Somewhat, D –Disagree Strongly.
OBJECTIVES: After completing this course, I am able to:
Discuss Complicated Bereavement*
Discuss Disenfranchised Grief and identify two losses directly related to this type of grief.*
Explain the concept if continuing bonds and how they help with adaptation to losses.*
Discuss the concept of resilience as it relates to adaptation to losses.*
Discuss Bowlby’s Attachment Theory related to grief and loss.*
Explain the concept of normal grief.*
Identify and discuss the major needs and behaviors of the bereaved who experience normal grief.*
Discuss grief and depression based on published research by mental health professionals.*
Identify and explain the four major tasks of the mourning process.*
Identify and discuss three additional models of the mourning process that mental health counseling professionals may use in grief counseling practices.*
Identify the seven major mediators of the mourning process.*
Discuss the five natures of attachment to the deceased, of those who grieve and their implications for the grief counseling process.*
Explain how a person’s death impacts the grieving client’s process of mourning and the implications for working with the client in grief counseling and grief therapy sessions.*
Discuss the importance for mental health professionals to assess the client’s historical antecedents of grieving.*
Identify and discuss major client personality variables and how mental health counseling professionals assess these variables to assist in understanding a client’s response to loss.*
Identify five styles of attachment and discuss how mental health counseling professionals use these theories and concepts of attachment in grief counseling and grief therapy sessions with clients.*
Discuss the concept of cognitive style and how clients various cognitive styles need to be assessed and considered when planning grief counseling and grief therapy interventions.*
Explain grieving as a social phenomenon.*
Discuss the concept of when mourning is finished, or if it is ever finished, and the implications for the counselor/client relationship.*
Identify and discuss the overall goal of grief counseling and the accompanying four tasks of mourning.*
Explain how mental health professionals use assessment parameters to identify the at-risk bereaved person.*
Critique four research studies that have been published in which mental health professionals were able to successfully identify predictors of at-risk bereaved clients.*
Identify and discuss 10 key principles and procedures used in grief counseling and grief therapy that are incorporated today by mental health professionals.*
Identify and discuss nine useful techniques that are used today, based on a solid understanding of human personality and behavior, in grief counseling and grief therapy practice by mental health professionals.*
Discuss the concept of process of conducting grief counseling sessions in groups.*
Identify and discuss the seven key guidelines for setting up groups for grief counseling sessions.*
Discuss facilitating grief through funeral rituals and the potential therapeutic outcomes for clients in grief counseling programs.*
List and discuss eight counselor interventions that may assist in making grief counseling and grief therapy sessions more efficacious.*
Discuss why people fail to grieve; identifying four causative factors.*
Discuss a definition of complicated bereavement.*
Discuss the concept of complicated grief as an emerging diagnosis and explain the implications for grief counseling and grief therapy professional practice.*
Identify and explain an existing model of complicated mourning and how the model is used today in grief counseling and grief therapy practices by mental health professionals.*
Identify and discuss the two ways that a therapist diagnoses a complicated grief reaction.*
Identify and discuss the goals and setting of grief therapy.*
Identify and explain the ten procedures for grief therapy.*
Discuss the Gestalt Therapy Technique of the Empty Chair and how mental health professionals can effectively use it in grief therapy sessions with clients.*
Explain how a grief therapist may use dreams when working with a client in grief therapy sessions.*
Identify and discuss criteria that grief therapists can use to evaluate client results and outcomes from grief therapy sessions.*
Discuss death by suicide and issues of counseling survivors of victims of suicide, including six key interventions that may use in counseling sessions by grief counselors.*
Discuss issues related to sudden death and the implications for grief counseling strategies by mental health professionals.*
Discuss issues related to violent death and the implications for grief counseling strategies by mental health professionals.*
Discuss SIDS and miscarriages and the implications for grief counseling strategies by mental health professionals.*
Discuss issues related to grief and loss from abortion and the implications for grief counseling strategies by mental health professionals.*
Discuss anticipatory grief and its manifestations and interventions for it that may be used in grief counseling and grief therapy sessions by mental health professionals.*
Discuss issues of grief, loss and mourning related to AIDS and implications for mental health professionals in grief counseling practices.*
Discuss the death of a child and the manifestations of grief generally experienced by parents and family.*
Identify ten of the most important findings of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and discuss their implications for counseling bereaved children.*
Explain a family intervention approach to counseling families experiencing grief due to the loss of a child.*
Discuss issues and primary manifestations of grief in the elderly.*
Discuss five effective interventions that may be used by mental health professionals in grief counseling with the elderly.*
Discuss the concept of the grief counselor’s own grief.*
Critique your own losses in order to make yourself more effective in your own grief work.*
Discuss the concept of Professional Burn Out and identify effective ways in which mental health professionals can avoid this phenomenon.*
Critique several research study outcomes related to mental health professionals and their work with death and dying, and with dying clients.*
Critique twenty grief sketches, as provided by the textbook’s author, as a way to facilitate critical thinking and planning of appropriate strategies for grief counseling sessions based on client’s perspectives and identified needs.*
ATTESTATION: I certify that I have read/studied the course materials and any additional course assignments and I have personally completed the final examination based on the materials presented.*
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