Advanced Diploma Bereavement Counselling (Counseling) & Thanatology

This course is a private qualification aimed at the helping professional and the carer.

A brief outline of the course (this syllabus is subject to change):

• Interdisciplinary Study of Death and Bereavement (Psychological, religious and cultural aspects)
• Grief Counselling and Therapy
• Death, Dying and Bereavement
• The Five Stages of Loss
• Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Loss
• The Healing Power of After-Death Communication
• Terminal Care and Bereavement Counselling
• Scientific Evidence of life After Death
• Final Project

The final project requires the student to write 3,000 to 5,000 words on a special aspect of death or bereavement, using the student's choice of books, articles & other sources. A list of suggested topics will be provided. The project may be cultural, philosophical, psychological, metaphysical, spiritual or based upon practitioner case studies.

Approx. 6 textbooks will be required for the core syllabus and the student will need to purchase the books.

Method of assessment

Continuous assessment - there is no final exam. Students will be asked to write brief essays after reading certain chapters of each set textbook. All assessment work may be done at home and e-mailed or posted to the college.