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What Will You Learn? 

Loss and grief are inevitable yet still immensely challenging aspects of life. When a bereavement happens, no matter whether it was predicted or unexpected, it can be incredibly difficult to process. The Grief and Bereavement Counselling Diploma Course acquaints you with the grieving process and explains how to support someone going through it, exploring the various types of bereavement, and advising the specifics of how to help in each situation.

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 also 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 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.Please also note once you have enrolled there is no time limit whereby you have to complete the course, its entirely up to you. At your own pace in your own time.

What Will You Need?

• Access to the internet with a laptop or similar.• Ability to organise your time due to the home study aspect. Daily planning.• A desire and determination to succeed and help others.

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Course Syllabus 

Module 1 – Introduction to Grief and Bereavement

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 9 – Spouse/Partner Bereavement

Module 10 – Counselling the Counsellor

Module 11 – Alternative Treatments

The fee is normally £127.00 but using this route the cost is now reduced to £99.00. To register I will need your full name and email address. An invoice is raised, upon payment you will receive via email all you need to start to study with a view to obtaining your Level 3 Diploma

Peter R L Hardy DIP   MCMA 

Grief and Bereavement Counsellor

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ENROLLMENT PROCEDURE 

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