title: Using service-learning to integrate death education into counselor preparation.
abstract: Service-learning can be a meaningful and effective tool for integrating death education into counselor preparation. The authors describe the design, implementation, reflection process, and evaluation of a service-learning based support program for grieving families and offer suggestions for death educators interested in service-learning as pedagogy. Their evaluation indicated that students who took a graduate-level group counseling course with a service-learning component exhibited lower distress in death-related clinical situations than students who took the course without the service component. Service-learning is closely aligned with death education aims and can be used to enhance counselor preparation program curricular alignment with relevant accreditation standards.
authors: a Department of Educational Studies , Purdue University , West Lafayette , Indiana , USA.
authors: Heather L
authors: HL
authors: Servaty-Seib
authors: Sara J
authors: SJ
authors: Tedrick Parikh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D003643:Death; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D055815:Young Adult