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Name of Hiring Unit: School of Social Work

Course: SWRK 668 – Living with Illness, Loss and Bereavement, Sec 001, CRN 8208

Term/Time/Location: Fall 2025 Term, SH680 1355, Thursdays 14:35 – 17:25

TQRs:

• MSW degree or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of demonstrated research or clinical social work practice in the field of illness, loss and bereavement as it pertains to practice with individuals, families and communities facing these life experiences.
• Expert knowledge of the theoretical, clinical and empirical approaches to social work practice within the realm of illness, loss and bereavement and themes of privilege, oppression, diversity and social justice.
• Ability to speak to personal practice experience as a researcher or clinical worker in the field of illness, loss and bereavement.

Demonstrated clinical/practical application of, and/or teaching/research experience in, the following areas:

• Application of theoretical and empirical knowledge relating to illness, loss and bereavement in health care practice as well as other social work settings where clients struggle with loss;

• Contemporary issues as they pertain to the psychosocial aspects of individuals and families living with life-threatening illness and/or the death of a loved one, disenfranchised grief, as well as other dimensions of loss;

• The social worker’s role in forming a partnership with the client/family system;

• Social justice and the mechanisms that support oppression and injustice;

• Themes of complicated mourning, including multiple losses; traumatized loss; disenfranchised loss; cultural genocide, and historical transmission of loss;

• Understanding losses across the lifespan, such as illness, divorce, family disruption, migration and political perils (including genocide);

• Recognizing the capacities of individuals, families and communities for resilience and growth when confronted with loss;

• Phases of illness (diagnosis, chronic, terminal, anticipatory grief, palliative care, and bereavement); the invisibility of the caregiver experience; suicide and other disenfranchised losses; genocide; trauma; ethical, cultural and spiritual factors.

• Responses and reactions of the various caregivers (including social workers) to death and loss and the impact of these reactions on client systems;

• Variables impacting loss and bereavement, including ability, age, class, colour, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion or spirituality, sex and sexual orientation) in the experience and expression of grief for the family and/or person facing death and bereavement.

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2025-07-25

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