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Loss & Grief links to Health and Physical Education

Activities and Sessions

Possible Outcomes 

Understanding life changes result in loss and grief

Change - pages 22-23

Grief reactions - page 24

Grief stories (video) - page 24

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Reactions to loss and change

Grief reactions - pages 25-26

’Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 28

Extension activity - page 27

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships. 

Reaching out, reaching in

How to help - pages 29-30

Helping yourself, helping a friend (handout) - pages 31-32

Helping a friend - page 30

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Helping friends

Types of support - pages 33–34

Giving advice - page 34

Dear Dr Wright letters (handout) - page 36

Seeking help - page 35

Newspaper article (handout) - page 37

What to say - page 35

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Feelings and fears

Different fears - page 38

Similarities & differences in our fears (worksheet) - page 40

Ranking fears - page 39

My fear (worksheet) - page 41

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships. 

Grief in a zoo community: funerals and grief rituals

Exploring grief - page 42

Newspaper article (handout) - page 44

Funerals - page 43

Newspaper article (handout) - page 45

Research - page 43

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices. 

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Loss: a universal experience

Change and loss - page 46

Feelings - page 47

Categories of loss (handout) - page 48

Holmes-Rahe survey of loss (worksheet) - page 49

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Grief is normal

Change and stress - page 50

’Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 52

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices. 

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Understanding loss in response to death

Different deaths - pages 53-54

Determinants of grief - page 54

Determinants of grief (student handout) - page 55

Determinants of grief (teacher information) - page 56

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Supporting grieving friends and relatives
(2 lessons)

Grief reactions - page 57

Masculine and feminine grieving patterns - pages 58-59

Unhelpful strategies (handout) - page 60

Guidelines for being a supportive person (handout) - page 61

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.