Grief Management Level 3 is designed for either those with counselling experience and looking to specialise in this area or those considering a career in counselling.

During the course students will learn to:

• Understand grief, loss, bereavement and mourning
• Develop knowledge about the models of bereavement and anticipatory loss
• Explain 'The Invisible Toolbox Part 1' in developing counselling skills
• Understand 'The Invisible Toolbox Part 2' in approaches and techniques
• Know how to support people with children, adolescents and loss

The course is approved by the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists. At the end of this course students will be able to join and become a member of the ACCPH. The ACCPH is an independent self-regulated professional body for counsellors, psychotherapists and hypnotherapists.

Support is provided for up to 12 months but it is entirely up to you how quickly you work through the course. The estimated study time is 100 hours so if you average around 5 hours a week study you would complete in 5-6 months. 

Students can choose to take the online version of the course where the course is emailed to you or request a paper copy where the course is delivered hard copy in folders. This is yours to keep so you can write on it, make notes etc.

Support is provided throughout the course via a tutor who can be emailed at any time should you come across anything you are unsure of. There is also a support team by telephone.

Grief Counselling Level 3 is split into six units. At the end of each unit you will complete an assignment which you will email to your tutor. An assignment is a set of questions based upon the unit you have just studied. Your tutor will mark your work and give you feedback. If there are any areas for improvements or anything that you have misunderstood you will always have the opportunity to re-submit.

The good news is there are no exams! Once you have completed all the assignments you complete the course.

Unit 1: Grief, Loss, Bereavement and Mourning

• Differentiate the terms grief, loss, bereavement and mourning
• Role of the grief counsellor
• Attitudes towards death

Unit 2: Models of bereavement and anticipatory loss

• Models/Stages of grief - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• TEAR - Worden
• Complicated grief
• Models of grief
• Persistent complex bereavement disorder
• Impede the role of the grief counsellor

Unit 3: The Invisible Toolbox Part 1: Developing Counsellor Skills

• Aim of grief counselling
• Rogers's client centred approach to grief counselling

Unit 4: The Invisible Toolbox Part 2: Approached and Hard Techniques

• Psychological approaches
• Case study: Laura
• Major depression disorder
• Models of grieving stages

Unit 5: Children, Adolescents and Loss

• Child symptoms of grief
• Applying interventions for a child who is grieving
• Empty chair technique
• Therapist's worksheets

Unit 6: Other Types of Loss

• Your role as a bereavement counsellor
• Choose a model of bereavement to apply to the case study
• Interventions best for the case study

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement by Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

The course itself has been designed by Open Study College to meet specific learners or employers requirements. The course has been endorsed by TQUK. This means Open Study College have undergone external quality checks to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers meet a high standard. Regular reviews of our courses are carried out as part of the endorsement process.

The completion of this course alone does not lead to an Ofqual regulated qualification but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills towards regulated qualifications in the future. The unit summary can be used as evidence towards your Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this sector.

The course depth and study has been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual.