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Certificate in Geriatric Counselling

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Grief is one of the core emotions that define us. With the pandemic raging for more than a year, the loss of jobs, relationships and life has only increased. Many people know someone or the other who has lost a loved one during these times. This Certificate in Grief Counselling Course has been designed to enable and empower more people to reach out and help those who have suffered a loss. 

 

Course Details

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Course objective

To help individuals understand seniors in their lives and navigate their lives around the issues of seniors. To help counsellors, mental health professionals add one more skill set to counselling seniors. 

Admission Criteria

The course is open to anyone who wishes to understand the issues of seniors. The course can also be done by practising counsellors and mental health professionals who wish to add the knowledge of geriatric counselling to their skills.

Course content

This will be an 8-session course with classes conducted once a week. The duration of the class will be two hours. Since this is an online course, most of the sessions would have a 20-30 minute break out room for one-to-one discussion with a batchmate on the concepts outlined in the class (like a practical session in real-time), in order to enable the learning to be strongly reinforced.

  1. Introduction to the course, Understanding Seniors and Geriatric Counselling

  2. First aid for Seniors, Mental health issues in Seniors

  3. Assessment in Geriatric Counselling. Developing a coordinated plan to maximize overall health of Seniors

  4. The process of Geriatric Counselling. Treatment plan and termination.
    5. Understanding anxiety in Seniors and effective ways of dealing with it.

  5. Understanding anxiety in Seniors and effective ways of dealing with it.

  6. Understanding sadness and depression and seniors and counselling them for it.

  7. Helping seniors use their strengths to live a fulfilling life - Using Positive Psychology in Geriatric Counselling

  8. Case studies and winding up.

Course Duration

The batch will have 8 classes or sessions of 2 hours duration. 

* Saturdays from 5:00 am to 7 pm.* 

Course Starts from 26 October 2024

Course evaluation is assignment-based

At the end of each session, the student is expected to submit a report about their learning and their view of the session After the first four classes are done, they are expected to counsel one person and submit a report on the assessment and their view of the person handling the grief.

They are expected to attend all 8 classes to qualify for the certificate.

If they do the assignments and the case review along with the attendance, they will be given the certificate

Expectations from the participants: 

We expect 100% attendance from every student. All students of the course are expected to attend ALL  the classes in the course and follow the rules of engagement as defined by the faculty.

They are expected to submit all the assignments in time and take an active part in the classroom activity. They are expected to uphold strict confidentiality on all matters shared by other participants either in the class or in the breakout room activities. 

Course Fee

The course fee is Rs 15000/- to be paid in one shot at the beginning of the course.  The fee once paid will not be refunded.

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