Lecture Notes

Loss and Trauma Readings (Online Course Pack)

• Definitions and General Concepts
• Perspectives on Loss Book Overview
• Account Making Figure
• Account Making Notes
• Toward a Psychology of Loss (Harvey and Miller Article)
• Prejudice/Stigma Notes
• Complicated Grief, Attachment, and Oscillation Theory

Dissolution Notes:

• Dissolution of Close Relationships Concepts
• Divorce and Dissolution of Romantic Relationships
• Causal Sequence: Major Loss, Trauma, Grief, Stress, & Coping Graph
• Dissolution and Divorce (flow chart)
• Dissolution (experience over time) chart
• Dissolution

PTSD and War:

• Trauma/PTSD/Posttraumatic Growth
• Monitor on Psychology Article (Higher the IQ the less likelihood of PTSD...)  
• The Holocaust
• Russia's War
• The Trauma of Vietnam
• Women of Vietnam
• Concepts Relating to Women of Vietnam
• Holocaust WWII

Logotherapy Notes:

• Clark-Logo Therapy Supplemental Notes
• Trauma/Clark notes on Authentic Self
• Clark Notes on Coping with Stress
• Logotherapy Road Map
• Belief System Schema

Post-Traumatic Growth and Adaptation:

• Adaptation
• Human Resilience (Bonanno Article)
• Social Stages Model of Coping with Trauma
• Resilience Lecture Notes

Suicide:

• Suicide
• Suicide Terrorism

Aging and the Elderly:

• Chronic Illness/Health
• Parental Death in the Lives of People with Serious Mental Illness
• Aging
• How we perceive the elderly
• Alzheimer’s Disease

Course Wrap-Up:

• Course Wrap-Up
• Overview of Authors with Concepts/Theories Part I
• Overview of Authors with Concepts/Theories Part II
• Loss and Trauma
• Edited Book Chapters Notes #1
• Edited Book Chapters Notes #2
• Golden Rule Talk

Additional Information over 9/11:

• Michael Graves 9-11 Account     (Personal account of a 9/11 survivor)
• 9-11 Impacts/Meanings/Questions     (Things to think about relating to 9/11)