Certificate Course in Counselling in Palliative Care
Training Program in association with CanSupport
Enrol for Counselling in Palliative Care Course and get ready to become a trained counsellor in home-based palliative care
Learn key counselling skills like Communication, Psychological Issues with life-limiting illnesses and ethics of Palliative Care etc., with this one-of-a-kind course
Admissions Open. Register now and get trained to become a certified Palliative Care Counsellor
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Next course starts on 1st December 2021
Who is it for?
Certificate Course in Counselling in Palliative Care is ideal for psychology graduates/counsellors and social workers who wish to start a career as a counsellor in palliative care to help people in distress who suffer from a life-limiting illness.
How does it help?
This 2-months certificate course in counselling in Palliative Care will help you to acquire requisite expertise like communication skills and authentic listening. Such skills will help you to manage patients, their family members and different life situations, facilitate them by enabling them to share their feelings and concerns and assess the same.
Why should you join us?
Unique Course Design
Uniquely designed course for Psychology Graduates/Counsellors and Social Workers who want to learn and train for counselling in palliative care.
Expert Faculty & Institution
Learn from highly qualified palliative care professionals and industry experts. You will get to train under CanSupport- a multi-disciplinary professional palliative care organization dedicated to providing and promoting excellence in care of those serious chronic illnesses, where they not only provide palliative care services but also organize outstanding educational programs.
Certification
Every participant will be receiving a certificate of participation from CanSupport.
Placement Assistance
After completing the course, the trainees are likely to absorbed as trainee/employee at CanSupport and its associates.
Counselling in Palliative Care Course Objective
Counselling in Palliative Care Course Curriculum
The curriculum of Certificate Course in Counselling in Palliative Care covers the following modules:
i. Introduction
- Patient Confidentiality
- Handling Emotions
- Counselling techniques – adults and children (Role Play)
ii. Patients and their Families
- Personality and cancer patients
- Family Dynamics
- What to observe when you visit a family
iii. Communication in Palliative Care
- Communication Skills
- Authentic Listening
- Breaking bad News
- Collusion
- Dealing with anger and denial
iv. Psychosocial and Spiritual Issues
- Psychosocial Issues in cancer and AIDS patients
- Sexuality and intimacy concerns
- Spiritual issues in advanced disease
v. Grief and Bereavement
- Grief and Bereavement
- Bereavement Counseling in Children & Adults
- What is healing & forgiveness
vi. Ethics in Palliative Care
- Ethical issues in Palliative care, Confidentiality
- Advance Directives/Living Will
- Euthanasia
vii. Multidisciplinary Teamwork
viii. Stress and burnout
- Handling work-related stress
- Meditation
Additional Skills
- Communication Skills
- Authentic Listening
- Assessment Skills
Job Roles / Career Prospects
- After completion of this Certificate Course in Counselling in Palliative Care you can work as a counsellor in home-based palliative care
Duration of on job training
- There will not be any on-the-job training. However, the participants would be required to go as observers on home visits with a palliative home care team for 3 days/week. For outstation trainees, training may be done online and 20 days of observership may be done later at their convenience. A certificate will be issued only after completion of the observership.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Eligibility
| Graduation (Preferably in Psychology or Social Work) |
Minimum Age | 20 Years |
Duration | 2 Months |
Mode of course | Online as well as offline along with field visits |
Location
| CanSupport Training Centre, New Delhi |
About MOHAN Foundation
MOHAN Foundation is a registered non-governmental organisation that has been working to promote deceased organ donation in India since 1997. For the past 24 years, it has worked to build a positive image for organ donation among the public, set up SOPs in hospitals and assisted State Governments with donor and transplant registries as well as guidelines and government orders for an ethical deceased organ donation and transplantation programme in the country.
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