E – Learning Bereavement Support Training

The Irish Hospice Foundation

The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is a national charity dedicated to all matters relating to dying, death and bereavement in Ireland

Bereavement Support Training

Pyramid of bereavement care

(adapted from NICE 2004)

Petrus Report 2007

• We recommend that all support personnel at levels 1 and 2 achieve the sixty-hour minimum, though it would be envisaged that this would be spread over time, possibly over a three year period.

• Training programmes for volunteers and professionals working with the bereaved should include at a minimum the following modules: 1. Active listening 2. Bereavement support and mourning 3. Theories and models of grief 4. Counselling skills 5. Self-care and caring for carers 6. Identifying trauma 7. Practical issues for the bereaved.

Why E – Learning ?

• Provides options for learners and educators in the delivery of training

• Ensures learners have access to consistent information and resources

• Allows learners to learn at their own pace, in their own time, and in their own locations

• Cost effective for both learners and training providers

• Provides useful options for trainers around bereavement issues

IHF – Level 1 – E Learning Course

• Lost for Words – Words for Loss - 2011 – Audience - General

• suitable for anyone wishing to learn about supporting someone who is grieving

– Content • Basic bereavement support with

special sections on Suicide, Terminal Illness and Death of a Child

– Duration – 1 Hour

IHF E Learning System

IHF Level 2 E Learning

• IHF worked with many of the key providers of bereavement support at Level 2 including:

• Hospices • Rainbows • Anam Cara • Living Links • Barnardos • Bethany • Bereavement Counselling Service • Turas Le Cheile • Family Centre Castlebar

– Developed a customised curriculum including

• Active listening • Bereavement support and mourning • Theories and models of grief • Practical issues for the bereaved.

Working With Loss

• Audience – Level 2 practitioners

• 3 Modules (approx 1 hour each) 1 - Bereavement Models and

Key Concepts

2 - Boundaries, Policies and Procedures at Level 2

3 - Key Communication Skills and Working with Children

What you see

Module 1

Bereavement Models and Key Concepts

Module 2

Module 3

Pricing Structure

Course Individual Volume Pricing

Level 1 €15 Yes

Level 2 €65 Yes

Upgrade to Level 2 €25 No

Finally

• Encourage you to:

– Play with the E Learning courses

– Interested in getting your feedback

• Breffni.mcguinness@hospicefoundation.ie

• Ph 01 6730064

• Thank you !