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Working with Clients Experiencing Grief: Self-Paced Course

About this course

This course focuses on communicating compassionately with grieving clients.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

explain the concept of loss and grief
Understand the impact of grief on thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical health
demonstrate an understanding of myths and factors that influence the intensity of grief
articulate and apply key ‘helping skills’ to assist clients experiencing grief
articulate and apply strategies to hold space for grieving clients
maintain physical and psychological safety.

Ideal for

This comprehensive self-paced course is ideal for a range of workers in community organisations and social services, including therapeutic and care workers, who want to enhance their understanding of grief and how it presents itself in therapeutic settings, care workplaces and environments.

Course structure

The course will take approximately 3-4 hours to complete.
Throughout the course, you’ll participate in learning activities that will help you to apply the course content to your own context. This integrated and practical approach to learning will enable you to go back to your workplace with new and innovative learnings that can be implemented straight away.
You will have access to the course content for 12 months from the date you commence the first module.

After completing this course you’ll receive the following course completion awards:

A certificate of completion for your records

A digital micro-credential badge.

The digital micro-credential badge can be displayed on your LinkedIn profile, resume, CV or email signature, to share your accomplishment with colleagues and professional networks.

Accessing this course

When you register:

you'll be taken to our payment gateway to complete your registration
a new account will be automatically created for you in our Learning Management System (Moodle). This will be your online learning hub, where you can access this course and all our upcoming training and professional development programs. If you have joined one of our events before, you should already have an account.
if you have forgotten your username or password, you can reset these on the Moodle log in page.