Supporting Children and Young People through Bereavement and Loss

This module is not scheduled to run in 2013/4.

Expressions of interest in the module are welcome for 2014/5; please email healthadmissions@cumbria.ac.uk

Why study with us?

This module aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills of practitioners who work in positions that enable them to support children and young people through the experiences of bereavement and loss.

Finance

If you are employed within NHS North West and this module is to be funded by your employing Trust, please contact your Line Manager and CPD Lead for advice relating to funding and the funding application process.

What can this course lead to?

Having completed this module, you may wish to bring the credits into the University Advanced Diploma Practice Development: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing. Please discuss this opportunity with the module leader before completion of this module.

Alternatively, you may wish to use this module towards a degree such as the BSc (Hons) Practice Development.

Resources and facilities We are amongst the UK’s leading health and wellbeing faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff. If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent. Entry requirements

Evidence of prior successful study at underpinning level.

More information about levels and credits.

Credit and UCAS requirements Credit: 20 credits Selection criteria To be eligible to study this module you should be able to apply it to your practice. Modules

HMFG6008 Supporting Children and Young People through Bereavement and Loss (20 credits at level 6)

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion, you will be able to:

• Identify and apply theoretical models of loss and bereavement as they impact on children, young people and families/carers
• Develop and apply knowledge and understanding of how children and young people may express grief depending on their emotional and developmental level
• Develop appropriate skills in talking to children and young people about death and dying
• Critically examine methods of supporting children and young people and their families through their experiences of bereavement and loss, and pre-bereavement
• Critically examine how effective interagency working can help to support children, young people and their families/carers at times of loss.

Indicative Core Bibliography

Dyregrov A (2008). Grief in Children. 2nd ed. London: Jessica Kingsley

Holland J (2008). How schools can support children who experience loss and death. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 36, (4), p. 411-424

Kubler-Ross, E. (2005). On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. London: Scribner

McCarthy, J.R. (2006). Young People's Experiences of Loss and Bereavement: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. Open University Press: Maidenhead.

Monroe, B., and Kraus, F. (2004). Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Weinstein, J.A. (2007). Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement. Sage: London.

Stickney, D. (2004) Water Bugs and Dragonflies: explaining death to young children. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press

www.childbereavement.org.uk Child Bereavement Charity

Assessment

Substantive assessment: 2,000 word written assignment
Formative assessment: 2,000 word equivalent reflective journal

Course summary Theories and concepts of loss and bereavement; attachment and loss; understanding expressions of grief in relation to child & adolescent development; grief as an individual experience and process; impact of loss and bereavement on children and young people’s mental health and psychological wellbeing, and their families/carers; talking to children about death and dying; support strategies for pre-bereavement and following bereavement; interagency working; consideration of cultural differences; exploration of relevant legal aspects.