Bereavement and Loss
The experience of bereavement and loss takes many forms and relates to very different life experiences as well as death. No matter what the source of the grief, the experience has a tendency to run a familiar path. Research suggests that healthy grieving is when this path is sequentially followed and completed and that when this does not occur, ongoing distress and dysfunction follow. This course provides the awareness of the different losses involved and how people can be supported through the process; when to refer on and to pre-empt more critical situations.
Target Audience
All those working in the helping professions.
Aims:
- Provide delegates with an understanding of bereavement and loss
- Provide delegates with a theoretical framework that might assist them in helping others through the process
- Highlight the support that staff require when dealing with their own issues of bereavement and loss
Content:
- Definitions: Bereavement/Loss
- An historical perspective of bereavement
- A contemporary perspective of bereavement
- Differences in culture, class and gender perspectives.
- Life events and loss.
- The stages of bereavement.
- Getting stuck in the process
- Helping others through the process
- Illness, injury, lack of development and shorter life expectancy issues.
- Anticipatory grief and conflict resolution in the elderly (Erikson and others)
- Supporting and managing depression in terminally ill or elderly service users
- Losing a service user
- Helping your team/other service users recover.
- The role of ounseling in the process.
- Supporting the service users family
Contact TCR for further information and quote price code: E