Certificate of Loss and Grief Counselling

• Structured counselling approach
• Analyse existing client information
• Initial session guidelines
• Assessment interviews
• Standardised assessments
• Engaging with clients
• Communication techniques
• Building rapport
• Active listening
• Effective questioning
• Client goals
• Establishing the helping relationship
• Counselling service information
• Client rights and responsibilities
• The counselling process
• Professional boundaries
• Expectations and commitment
• Anxiety or concerns
• Referral process
• Collaborative processes
• Confidentiality and privacy
• Conflicting interests
• Person-centred approach
• Options and approaches
• Counselling contracts
• Counselling plans
• Informed consent
• Records management

• Signs of loss and grief
• Primary, secondary and cumulative losses
• Features and symptoms of grief
• Distinguishing grief and depression
• Grieving styles
• Loss of spouse or partner
• Loss of a child
• Parental grief
• Loss of a parent / sibling
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Signs and reactions to trauma
• Stages of grief
• Complex grief
• Social and cultural differences
• Ethnic and spiritual differences
• Communication
• Active listening
• Health and safety risks
• Suicide risk assessment
• Recognising the warning signs
• Complications of grief
• Engaging empathically
• Respecting cultural differences
• Listening skills
• Facilitate coping mechanisms
• Prolonged grief disorder
• Stress Vulnerability Model
• Support services and resources
• Supporting child grief and bereavement
• Healthy ways to face loss
• Disaster grief
• Treatment strategies
• Client feedback
• Criteria for referral
• Self-care for professionals
• Debriefing
• Review client outcomes
• Problem-solving
• Negotiation
• Plan changes

• The clients story
• Open and closed questions
• Counselling environments
• Legal and ethical requirements
• Mandatory reporting
• Child protection
• Duty of care
• Engaging with clients
• Immediate action
• Conflicting interests
• Client concerns
• Reframing technique
• Referral processes
• Client uncertainty
• Client ambivalence
• Ethics
• Experience and process difficulties
• Recovery stages
• Emotional intelligence
• Interventions
• Support mechanisms
• Strengths-based counselling
• Perceptions of client feelings
• Active listening
• Identifying underlying issues
• Dealing with life changes
• Monitor counselling process
• Disruptions
• Hopes and expectations versus reality
• Planning for change
• Action planning
• 12 signs of good counselling
• Counselling conclusion
• Emotionally dependent clients
• The ending process
• Professional boundaries
• Plan, structure and contract endings
• Further support
• Unresolved issues
• Complete documentation
• Records management

When you study with Australian Online Courses, you will be assessed using a competency-based training method.

Competency-based training focuses on the achievement of skills and knowledge against set criteria to meet industry-standard and is not benchmarked against other students’ work.

In this course, the assessment will be comprised of written assignments and exercises, which may include short answer questions, reports, essays, research projects and reflective tasks.

If you do not achieve a competency result on your first attempt, you have two more attempts to pass your assessment. So, you have three attempts in total to obtain a competency result.

In this way, you can complete your course in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

• Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
• Improve your employment opportunities;
• Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
• High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
• No entry requirements;
• All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
• Unlimited tutor support;
• Easy to understand course content;
• Twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
• Certificate of Attainment/Completion issued for your CV (hard copy provided); and
• Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.

The approximate study hours for this course is 45 hours. Twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply).

Yes! The cost for printed materials for this course is $50 per unit. Total cost for optional printed materials is: $150.00. Printed materials are optional and not required to complete the course. Everything you need to complete the course is provided online via our e-learning system.

You can start within 60 minutes during business hours when you enrol and pay in full with a credit card!

Credit card: Within 60 mins during business hours.

BPAY: Within 1-2 working days.

Internet Banking: Within 1-2 working days.

Cheque/Money Order: Upon receipt of mailed cheque.

Yes! You will receive a Certificate of Attainment upon successful completion of your assessment.

No. All courses are delivered online via our e-learning system and there are no work placement requirements in this course.

Unlimited tutor support is available throughout your studies via email during business hours Monday to Friday. Our Administrative team are available Monday to Friday via email, live chat and telephone.

Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.