Faculty Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Grieving Students
Location
CSU Ballroom
Start Date
27-4-2009 1:00 PM
End Date
27-4-2009 3:00 PM
Student's Major
Health Science
Student's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Mentor's Name
Amy Hedman
Mentor's Department
Health Science
Mentor's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Description
Students often experience the loss of their loved one and are caught in a grieving process that can range from one day to many days depending on their culture. This grieving will definitely have some effect on the learning process of the student, and thus affects their success. Our plan was to conduct an online survey to a random sample of MSU-Mankato full-time instructional faculty and analyze the following issues: faculty's comfort level discussing death with students and faculty's comfort level referring their students to counseling services. The likelihood that faculty will provide accommodations to grieving students is measured among a sample of college faculty. Faculty's perceptions of students' likelihood to discuss death with them, the relationship between empathy reported among faculty and likelihood faculty will provide accommodations to grieving students were studied. Results from this study indicated that faculty reacted positively toward the grieving student.
Faculty Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Grieving Students
CSU Ballroom
Students often experience the loss of their loved one and are caught in a grieving process that can range from one day to many days depending on their culture. This grieving will definitely have some effect on the learning process of the student, and thus affects their success. Our plan was to conduct an online survey to a random sample of MSU-Mankato full-time instructional faculty and analyze the following issues: faculty's comfort level discussing death with students and faculty's comfort level referring their students to counseling services. The likelihood that faculty will provide accommodations to grieving students is measured among a sample of college faculty. Faculty's perceptions of students' likelihood to discuss death with them, the relationship between empathy reported among faculty and likelihood faculty will provide accommodations to grieving students were studied. Results from this study indicated that faculty reacted positively toward the grieving student.
Recommended Citation
Aron, Samuel. "Faculty Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Grieving Students." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 27, 2009.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2009/poster-session-B/27
