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Course Overview
Embark on a transformative learning journey with the UK’s most innovative home study provider, offering courses designed to unlock your true potential and facilitate the career change you desire. Access our distance learning courses directly from anywhere, anytime, and acquire industry-recognised Professional Qualifications essential for advancing in your career.
Specifically, explore the flexible and convenient Bereavement Counselling (Level 3) course, an ideal way to gain a diploma qualification. Whether you aim for further education, improved job prospects, or expanded knowledge, this comprehensive course allows you to prepare thoroughly for exams or careers through home study. Plus, it’s structured to be accessible and beneficial even if you have no prior knowledge in Bereavement Counselling.
This course is accepted by ACCPH at Level 3 and allows you to join as a professional member after graduation.
This Level 3 Diploma course is designed to follow on from, and compliment the basic or introductory counselling course. Reappraisal of basic counselling skills and core knowledge will be covered, together with a detailed examination of the five approaches or theories counselling.
Specific attention will be given to psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches, which will give students a fuller working knowledge and understanding of advanced counselling skills. In specialist counselling fields, these advanced skills are necessary in order to be able to recognise and deal with the complex range of client needs, together with being able to understand the origins of these particular emotions and possible physiological factors.
Course Key Topics
the Bereavement Counselling (Level 3) course is divided into 10 modules.
Module 1: Reappraisal, approaches and theories of counselling
The first module reflects on previous knowledge and looks in detail at the five theories which have been adopted as the main approaches in counselling. The work of Freud, Rogers, Skinner, Ellis, Jung and Eagan will be looked at in brief in this module, and the corresponding counselling approaches examined.
Module 2: The psychodynamic approach
Students will look at how the psychodynamic approach works and is applied to the counselling situation. Specific examples and activities will give the student indications as to which particular set of client conditions benefits most from this approach.
Module 3: The cognitive behavioural approach
In this module students will look at how the cognitive behavioural approach works and is applied to the counselling situation. Specific examples and activities will give the student indications as to which particular set of client circumstances benefits most from this approach.
Module 4: The person-centred approach
This module will look at how they work and are applied to the counselling situation. Specific examples and activities will give the student indications as to which particular set of client circumstances benefits most from this approach.
Module 5: Process, skill and boundaries
Students will have the opportunity to examine the counselling process itself and the skills needed in bereavement counselling. The module will also discuss boundaries or limitations in this most sensitive area of work and will look at how to recognise and deal with these limitations; where to go next and what the following steps are.
Module 6: Loss; concepts, origins and perspectives
The main focus of this module is looking at the concepts of loss in terms of how humans interpret different kinds of losses, and how these losses are put into categories. Cultural issues within a multicultural society will be examined, together with people’s perspectives on the loss of life and the historical denial or fear which has evolved since modern ‘death’ has become an unseen event.
Module 7: Understanding bereavement
The grieving process is the main topic area for this module. Students will learn to understand the individual needs of people dealing with bereavement, and will give an insight into the implications of the process which can be psychological and physiological.
Module 8: Responding to grief
Bereavement counselling sessions are covered within this unit. Students will extend their vocabulary of the subject area. Appropriate vocabulary, expectations and responses will be examined, and there will be detailed references to particular skills which should be employed in certain situations.
Module 9: Bereavement counselling for special groups: Part 1
The remaining two modules both focus on counselling for special groups. In this module the student will learn how to deal with special individual groups: the loss of a partner, loss of a child, bereavement through trauma, disaster, war, terrorism and suicide.
Module 10: Bereavement counselling for special groups: Part 2
This module looks at the remaining special groups: children’s bereavement, the loss of a pet, empathetic grief, and other bereavement situations.
(Please click on the curriculum tab above to see a detailed view of each module)
Course Content
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How to…. (a series of explainer videos)
Module 1 – Reappraisal, approaches and theories of counselling
Module 2 – The psychodynamic approach
Module 3 – The cognitive behavioural approach
Module 4 – The person-centred approach
Module 5 – Process, skill and boundaries
Module 6 – Loss; concepts, origins and perspectives
Module 7 – Understanding bereavement
Module 8 – Responding to grief
Module 9 – Bereavement counselling for special groups: Part 1
Module 10 – Bereavement counselling for special groups: Part 2
Course Resources
Final Exam
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