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COUN620 Grief and Loss: Issues and Approaches
10 cp
Prerequisites COUN621 Foundations of Counselling or equivalent experience
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of seminars and skills-based workshops. Additional weekly reading will be required.
This unit aims to enhance students’ skills and knowledge of grief and loss, bereavement theory and related counselling interventions. It will engender appreciation of the unique experience and expression of grief and mourning with regard to the personal, family, social and cultural contexts. A range of historical and current perspectives in the literature specific to grief and loss theory will be considered and their implications for practice. The needs of individuals at different stages of the lifespan, as well as special groups eg minorities and Indigenous people, and the context of their specific bereavement experiences will be examined. The unit will also address the importance of self-awareness and ethical practice in relation to the counselling process.
