Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 2
Unit No:
R/503/3149
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
25 hours

Assessment Guidance

Bereavement may include:
•death
•divorce
•redundancy.
Views may include:
•the conventional view of grief that people move through an orderly and predictable series of responses to loss
•one that considers the wide variety of responses that are influenced by personality, family, culture and religious beliefs and practices
•one that replaces the ‘stages’ of grief with a spiral model of grieving.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand bereavement within health, social care and children’s and young people’s settings.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Describe the:
    •social
    •emotional
    •physical
    •behavioural
    effects that bereavement may have on individual children, young people and adults.
  • 1.2
    Give examples of the types of bereavement a:
    •child
    •young person
    •adult
    may experience during their life.
  • 1.3
    Describe the effect that:
    •culture
    •religion
    •personal beliefs
    •stages of development
    may have on individual children, young people and adults who experience bereavement.

2

Understand the process of grieving and adjusting to bereavement for children, young people and adults.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Describe some different views of how individual children, young people and adults may respond, over time, to loss.
  • 2.2
    Give examples of how you could support individual children, young people and adults to help them:
    •take responsibility for their own decisions
    •make and communicate their own decisions
    whilst they are adjusting to bereavement.

3

Know strategies to help individual children, young people and adults to adjust to bereavement in health, social care and children’s and young people’s settings.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Give examples of how you could support individual children, young people and adults:
    •through the process of grieving
    •to cope with the effects of bereavement on their lives
    •to deal with issues that are likely to arise.
  • 3.2
    Identify some of the types of support available to children, young people and adults when they are adjusting to bereavement.
  • 3.3
    Describe how and where to get support for yourself when working with individuals adjusting to bereavement.