Accredited Level 3 Diploma in Bereavement Counselling

This Quality Assured, Level 3 Diploma in Bereavement Counselling, is aimed at providing those with counselling experience and/or introductory qualifications, with a review of the fundamentals of counselling, while gaining knowledge and application of counselling in bereavement care.

The course will cover the five key perspectives of counselling skills that underpin the fundamental basis for all counselling. This theoretical foundation will form the basis for, exploring how individuals cope with bereavement as a life experience; how the skilled counsellor can provide; an understanding of, loss and bereavement; coping strategies for anxiety, grief and blame; while signposting the client towards a greater understanding of wellbeing and in part, closure.

The Learning programme for the student, offers choice and scope in regards to the wider study of the specialist areas of counselling the bereaved person. The core aims of the diploma are to:

• Specifically offers student a theoretical academic approach to the study of this area of advanced counselling through a robust programme of learning that will enhance careers in the wider field of counselling settings in: social care; palliative care; funeral care, spiritual/pastoral care and many other associated settings.
• The Diploma Bereavement Counselling encourages students to: develop their interest in, and enthusiasm for, a rigorous study of their subject at a specialist level and explores the core framework that is currently bereavement counselling theory and professional practice.
• To apply the subject as an academic discipline by developing knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to a very specialist area of Counselling, adopt an enquiring, critical and reflective approach to the study of cognitive and person centred bereavement counselling.

• Students will have an opportunity to study aspects of Counselling theory and practice that is current and informs the foundation for bereavement counselling.
• To undertake a broader study of the subject of bereavement counselling through the selection of a variety of topics, although diverse, will complement each other. The following are examples: your enhanced role, as bereavement counsellor: understanding grief and loss; crisis counselling; emotional strategy; client wellbeing; support networking and how the fundamental perspectives of counselling can be best applied in this area of person centred therapy.
• Some prior knowledge of Counselling is recommended, or experience in working with the bereaved. However, the opportunity is provided for candidates who have studied a social science subject at A Level (either as a Full or Short