Bereavement Training for Professionals
Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC will be providing training for social workers, teachers, funeral home employees, school counselors, crisis workers, therapists, palliative care nurses, or any individual who wants to explore bereavement issues related to their clients.
Training will cover:
- The basics of bereavement
- Bereavement by suicide or homicide
- Multiple losses
- The Grief of Children
- Cultural & religious sensitivity with regards to grief
- Caregiver resiliency
The sessions are facilitated by a grief and loss therapist/trainer with Living Through Loss Counselling.
A certificate will be awarded upon completion of the training.
The group has a limited enrollment and runs for 7 weeks @ $375.00.
Questions: Phone the Society office at 604-873-5013
When: Tues, Jan 24, 2012
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: 206-1651 Commercial Drive (1st and Commercial)
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Bereavement - The Basics
- Definitions
- Obtaining common ground
- Treatment modalities
- Theories of Kubler-Ross, Worden, Reeves and others
- Our Society's perspective
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Complex Bereavement - PART ONE
- Understanding Multiple Loss
- Assessment
- Intervention issues
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Complex Bereavement – Part Two
- Understanding Multiple Loss
- Assessment
- Intervention issue
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Bereavement by Suicide/Homicide
- Complication facts in the bereavement process
- Assessment
- Intervention issues
- Long term impact
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Children and Bereavement
- A Child's view of grief and loss
- How parents can help/hinder a child's response to death
- When a child dies
- Intervention issues
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Cultural and Religious Sensitivity
- Whose perspective are we using anyway?
- With no experience, what can you do?
- Intervention issues
- Culture – what does this mean?
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Caregiver Resiliency
- What is resiliency?
- Caregiver boundaries
- Our stories – our client stories
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