This course is accredited with Level 1: 2 Ethics CEUs and 2 General CEUs (4 in total) from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
About the course
This course was originally created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic but has since been revamped and updated and is offered as a free course to anyone who wishes to learn how to support children who are grieving due to the loss of a loved one or who may have experienced multiple losses due to a tragic event.
This course covers the following key elements:
- Define the terms loss, grief, mourning and bereavement
- Understand how children will experience secondary and cumulative losses when a loved one dies
- Differentiate between the different types of grief
- Understand the ways in which children grieve
- Describe the grief reactions children and adolescent’s display
- Describe how children understand death and dying
- Know how to discuss death with a child
- Know how to support children who are grieving
Why take the course?
Dr Welly Den Hollander, a medical social worker and Narrative Therapist, has reviewed the course and this is what she had to say:
“I would recommend this informative and relevant course to family members, grieving communities and bereavement counsellors. The course describes the realities of children and teens who grieve a loved one during COVID-19. The information is comprehensive, practical, and needed in a time that many of our children experience losses to their lives.”
Dr Welly den Hollander
Medical Social Worker and Narrative Therapist
