bereavement counsellor
Bereavement counsellors support and guide patients and their families to better cope with the death of the loved ones by assisting them in emergent situations, at the hospices and at the memorial services. They train other professionals and communities anticipating the supportive needs of bereavement and responding to the education requirements.
Also called: bereavement social counsellor, bereavement support counsellor, family bereavement counsellor, bereavement support worker, bereavement officer, community bereavement support officer, bereavement service coordinator, bereavement advice counsellor
- 45
- essential skills
- 1
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- social counsellor41 skills in common
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- military welfare worker27 skills in common
- community social worker26 skills in common
Essential skills
45- accept own accountability
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
- client-centred counselling
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have emotional intelligence
- help clients cope with grief
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- human psychological development
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- social justice
- social sciences
- stages of bereavement
- supervision of persons
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
Optional skills
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