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The Health Educator as Death Educator: Professional Preparation and Quality Control
Author(s) -
Crase Darrell
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1980.tb02058.x
Subject(s) - credibility , health educators , quality (philosophy) , death education , control (management) , health education , medical education , scale (ratio) , psychology , professional development , health professionals , nursing , health care , medicine , public health , political science , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , law , management , economics
Death education appears to be gaining wide acceptance within educational institutions. Much of it is contained within the health education component and taught by health educators. Yet, there is little, if any, evidence of large‐scale attempts to improve and guarantee quality instruction. Attention must now be focused on professional preparation in order to provide competent teachers and to maintain credibility within the death education and counseling area.