This is a one day course and introduces or refreshes the delegates to the sensitive issue of bereavement, how they can apply techniques to ease the process of those involved and how to reflect and develop themselves during the process of bereavement support.

It is expected that delegates shall;

• Be able to identify and become familiar with current thinking and research in the area of bereavement
• Become familiar with best practice standards in bereavement support
• Identify and understand their own experience of loss
• Understand the factors that can influence the experience of loss
• Learn how to support people in coping with loss
• Learn how to identify complicated grief and its behaviours
• Learn the important of reflective practice and non-anxious presence