GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT DIPLOMA

This course will prepare you with all-important aspects of counselling to enable working with the bereaved.

Understand the grief reaction, the ‘chaos’ of grief and its different phases.

Understand the purpose of bereavement counselling.

Understand the stress specific and non-specific/mixed reactions of grief.

Understand and identify the different types of grief.

Explain how to support the management of grief.

Recognise a ‘pang’ or ‘wave’ of grief and explain what might trigger such an episode.

Learn how anger is a normal response to grief and how it is often misdirected.

Identify the primary symptoms of grief and the ‘on-going’ state, which is likely to be experienced.

Learn the definition of the following:

Stigma

Deprivation

Understand ways in which bereavement affects the male client.

Discover how children handle grief at different ages.

Establish how the counsellor deals with the burden of guilt in a child.

Understand the impact and scope of violent death.

Explore how support needs to be adapted when dealing with violent death.

Identify normal and pathological denial.

Ascertain the rights of the bereaved.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
PROCESSOR 1 gigahertz (GHz)
RAM 1 GB

OPERATING SYSTEMS Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Mac OS
iOS

BROWSERS
Internet Explorer 8 or above
Google Chrome
Safari 6 or above
Mozilla Firefox

COMPATIBILITY
Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android

No pre-requisite

You will gain a endorsed Diploma

Readily available for you to access online from anywhere

You can enhance your current career status by adding this qualification to your portfolio

At the end of each unit there is a multiple choice question assessment, which is a great way to help you remember the main points of each lesson and confirmation that you have retained the essential knowledge

Gain a better understanding of how to deal with a loss and become a support system for friends and family as well as on a professional level.