'E-learning - Bereavement Support Training' (Presentation from Dublin Community Hospital Network, August 2013) (DCN7)

1. E – Learning
Bereavement Support Training

2. 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

3. Bereavement Support Training
Pyramid of
bereavement care
(adapted from
NICE 2004)

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. IHF E Learning System

8. 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.

9. 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

10. What you see

11. Module 1
Bereavement Models and Key Concepts

12. Module 2

13. Module 3

14. Pricing Structure
Course Individual Volume Pricing
Level 1 €15 Yes
Level 2 €65 Yes
Upgrade to Level 2 €25 No

15. Finally
• Encourage you to:
– Play with the E Learning courses
– Interested in getting your feedback
• Breffni.mcguinness@hospicefoundation.ie
• Ph 01 6730064
•Thank you !