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SOCWK 240RPalliative Care

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Fall 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. F20
  2. F21

Ran in 2 terms, Fall 2020 to Fall 2021.

An introduction to the concepts and practices in palliative care. Topics include historical and philosophical background, the hospice movement, current approaches in palliative care, the multi-discipline team, stress factors, suicide and cross-cultural beliefs of death, illness and loss as they affect the terminally ill and their families.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: SOCWK 120R

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1990–91 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars

An introduction to the concepts and practices in palliative care. Topics include historical and philosophical background, the hospice movement, current approaches in palliative care, the multi-discipline team, stress factors, suicide and cross-cultural beliefs of death, illness and loss as they affect the terminally ill and their families. Prereq: SOCWK 120R or consent of instructor

Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit