The Influence of Personal Threat, Personal Loss, Age, Practice Characteristics, and Death Education on Counselors' Death Anxiety and Death Acceptance
Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: A sample of 234 professional counselors were surveyed to investigate factors that affect professional counselors’ levels of death anxiety and death acceptance were investigated. Factors included personal experiences of mortality (personal threat), experiences of bereavement (grief), hours working with clients presenting death, dying, and bereavement (DDB) issues (client hours), numbers of clients who have died (client death), age, and hours of formal death education (death education). The measures of death anxiety and death acceptance were participants’ scores on the Death Attitudes Profile—Revised. Analysis of the results found a significant negative relationship between client hours and death anxiety measures and a significant positive relationship between client hours and death acceptance measures. These results counselor education programs could better prepare counseling students by increasing exposure to counseling scenarios involving DDB issues.
Author: Michael Morad-McCoy
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2794497286