HSC CYP 1: Introductory awareness of bereavement in health, social care and children’s and young people’s settings

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

• 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

• 2.1. Describe different views of how individual children, young people and adults may respond, over time, to loss
• 2.2. Give examples of strategies to 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

• 3.1. Give examples of strategies to support individual children, young peoples and adults to help them • 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 the types of support available to children, young people and adults when they are adjusting to bereavement
• 3.3. Describe support available for the worker when working with individuals adjusting to bereavement