Course Description

In the course of counselling, you may come across clients, whose loved ones have passed away or who experience other kinds of losses. This training will equip you with the necessary knowledge about grief and losses, as well as enabling you to make appropriate assessment and intervention plans for clients.

Course Objectives

This course will help participants:

• To gain an understanding of the common signs of grief
• To formulate assessment and develop skills in grief counselling
• To differentiate complicated grief from common grief
•  Course Contents
• Common signs of grief
• Contemporary grief theories
• Formulation of goals and assessment in grief counseling
• Useful tools in grief counseling
• Grief in family systems
• Grief in different developmental stages
• Complications in grief

Who Should Attend

All counsellors, healthcare workers, social workers, psychologists, teachers and principals, pastoral staff, and people involved in the helping profession.

 Award

Participants who meet 80% class attendance will be awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment by the Academy of Human Development.