Bespoke

Bespoke Bereavement Training

We can design training to meet the particular needs of your organisation or group and work closely with you to make sure that your aims are met. In this way, you and your organisation can be confident that the training will cover all identified aims and learning objectives.

Recent clients include:

• Hospices
• Social services departments and health professionals
• Police family liaison officers
• Teachers in primary and secondary education
• Voluntary organisations
• Youth workers and Prince's Trust for Young Carers

Subjects presented are based directly on our practical experience of supporting bereaved children and their families and include:

• Factors affecting children’s grief
  • developmental understanding
  • age at time of death
  • types of death (for example, sudden and expected)
  • time since death
  • bereavement by violence (for example, murder and suicide)
  • traumatic bereavement
  • cultural influences.

• Talking to children about death and dying
  • supporting bereaved children and their families
  • supporting children and families facing life-threatening illness
  • involvement in funerals and funeral rites

• Interventions with bereaved children
  • assessment
  • individual work
  • practical and creative ideas
  • memory
  • group work
  • residential group work.

• Service development
  • establishing services for bereaved children
  • developing services
  • evaluation.

• Models and theoretical background
  • current understanding of children and grief

• research findings.

For more information, please contact us on 01242 515157 or email info@winstonswish.org.uk