Grief and Bereavement Counselling Diploma Course

Course details

The course opens by discussing the concepts of grief and bereavement, providing a basic overview of how an individual might experience them.

You will explore and identify specific counselling skills used with individuals coping with grief and bereavement. You will learn the skills needed to help babies, toddlers, children, adolescents and adults through bereavement, along with how to help someone with diagnosed mental health difficulties to work through bereavement.

The Grief and Bereavement Counselling Diploma Course delves into counselling for sudden bereavement, including loss through suicide. You will gain an overview of how an individual may respond and techniques that can help someone through sudden bereavement and violent bereavement. You will also learn ways to counsel an individual through terminal illness bereavement, including, but not limited to, cancer and dementia, and you will look at end of life care and how to prepare an individual for this.

Children cope with death in different ways depending on their age. You will explore how children of various age groups may respond to a death, how to help them through bereavement and the common symptoms/behaviours that may be apparent. You will also learn how to help parents who have lost a child, including loss through miscarriage and stillbirth.

The Grief and Bereavement Counselling Diploma Course details other specific forms of bereavement. You will explore techniques to help an individual who is going through pet bereavement and how an individual may be impacted, how someone may be impacted by a sibling bereavement, how an individual may react after a partner/spouse has died, and how a counsellor can help themselves through vicarious bereavement and why they should practice self-care.

The course concludes by discussing alternative treatments that may be beneficial to help someone through a bereavement.

Modules

• Module 1 - Introduction to Grief and Bereavement
• Module 11 - Alternative Treatments
• Module 2 - Counselling Skills for Grief and Bereavement
• Module 3 - Counselling Sudden Bereavement
• Module 4 - Counselling Terminal Illness Bereavement and End of Life Care
• Module 5 - Supporting Children Through Grief and Bereavement
• Module 6 - Supporting Parents Through Child Bereavement
• Module 7 - Counselling Skills for Pet Bereavement
• Module 8 - Sibling Bereavement
• Module 10 - Counselling the Counsellor

Updated on 06 April, 2021