Childhood Bereavement Courses

Direct Practice: Working with Bereaved Children, Young People and Families:

• Pre-bereavement
• Theories of bereavement
• Child development; loss through the life-cycle; the family context
• Attachment theory and bereavement
• Children bereaved by a traumatic death
• Assessment issues
• Working with individuals, with families and in groups
• Working within intersectionality
• Brief versus extended interventions, telephone work and online support.

Context and Framework:

• Service development: assessing need and setting up a service
• Setting standards for service delivery: record-keeping; monitoring and maintaining quality; working with volunteers
• Supervision and support
• Inter-agency working; referral to other services
• Safeguarding
• Children’s Mental Health
• Impact and implications of Covid-19 for bereavement services
• Training issues for service providers: resources; methods; reflective practice.

The courses are taught on a part-time basis over 10 months. Students are required to attend all sessions.

• Two in-person sessions (Thursday and Friday) at the beginning and end of the course at CARE, St Christopher’s, 51-59 Lawrie Park Road Sydenham London SE26 6DZ.
• One in-person session (Friday) midway through the course at Hospice UK, Hospice House, 34-44 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JG.
• Six one-day online sessions (Fridays).

Teaching staff

Students will be assessed in a variety of ways, including:

• a case discussion and presentation
• two learning journals
• a short individual presentation of a practice technique
• professional and service development plan.

Please note: The teaching and course content are the same across both Level 6 and 7, but the assessments are differentiated. 

Course fees and additional costs for students

Level 6 (40 credits)                  £1800 plus VAT (£2160 inc VAT)
Level 7 (40 credits)                  £2400 plus VAT (£2880 Inc VAT)

No part of the course fee will be refunded if a student does not take up their place on the course or if they decide to withdraw once the course has started.

Additional costs

In addition to the registration fees, you will have to fund the cost of travel, overnight accommodation, subsistence, books and occasional photocopying. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked about how you plan to cover the cost of studying.

Funding

If you are successful in gaining a place on one of the Childhood Bereavement Courses, you might be eligible to apply for one of our bursaries and professional development grants. These support the professional development of hospice staff by making a contribution to the cost of course fees.

Find out about the Masonic Charitable Foundation's bursaries for hospice staff

Find out about the National Garden Scheme professional development grants