Loss and Bereavement (Clinical Practice) Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Overview

RCSI, in association with the Opens in new windowIrish Hospice Foundation, runs two accredited Level 9 MSc programmes focusing on loss and bereavement: Opens in new windowMSc in Loss & Bereavement and MSc in Loss & Bereavement (Clinical Practice).Both programmes are rooted in contemporary scientific research and designed against a policy and professional regulation backdrop.

Applications for the MSc Loss & Bereavement (Clinical Practice) are invited from qualified, accredited psychotherapists and counsellors whose clinical work involves therapeutic support of bereaved people.

Learning outcomes

• Critically debate and contribute to theoretical understanding and knowledge about loss and grief across the life-cycle and grief support structures relating to health, community and work organisations and in the voluntary sector.

• Develop and utilise advanced bereavement counselling skills as part of professional counselling practice, on this Loss and Bereavement (Clinical Practice) programme at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

• Evaluate different contemporary perspectives on death, dying and loss in society – including social history, cultural issues, cause and circumstance of death, death education, loss through the life cycle, family bereavement, cultural issues, gender issues, research and ethical issues.

• Critically appraise, apply and design bereavement research, audit and evaluation.

• Critique, select and utilise advanced bereavement therapeutic skills as part of professional practice.

• Develop and utilise advanced bereavement therapeutic skills as part of professional practice.

• Analyse the organisation of bereavement support and formulate strategic and systematic developments in bereavement care in different settings.

• Design models for self-care and staff support in environments where people are consistently working with, or meeting, death and bereavement.

• Manage and evaluate changes in work practices relative to an area of bereavement care.

• Reflect on personal development and growth through the educational experience.

• Display an integrated value and evidence-based approach to the support of bereaved people.