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Understanding Loss and Grief - Six Week Evening Course

Cost: £90 to external attendees. (This course is free to employees and counselling volunteers at St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice, Winsford and £45 to other St Luke's (Cheshire) Hospice volunteers.)
Duration: 6 weeks Evenings - 5 February - 12 March 2013, 7pm-9.30pm

Course Information

 

• Increase your insight in the experience of loss and grief during advanced life-threatening illness and bereavement

   
• Increase your ability to have supportive conversations with patients and relatives who are stressed by impending and present losses

PROGRAMME

Session 1 Loss – types / features / impact

Session 2 Determinants of grief

 Impact of age, gender, culture

 

Session 3 Grief process – grief theories

Session 4 Grief counselling skills and attitude

Session 5 Embedding counselling in other caring roles

Session 6 Spirituality and grief

Each session will be a mixture of

theory, practice and self reflection