COU262 The profile of this client – Demographics and background of client, e.g. pseudonym, age, gender, ethnicity: Loss and Grief Counselling Assignment, SUSS, Singapore, Singapore

Question 1
Present a case where a client is going through normal grief. Use the following
information to do your write-up:

a. The profile of this client – Demographics and background of client, e.g.
pseudonym, age, gender, ethnicity, family of origin, marital status, work/studies/living arrangements.
(4 marks)

b. Describe the normal grief that this client is going through, highlighting what
happened and the grief reactions.
(6 marks)

c. Explain Empathic Communication. Demonstrate how you can apply these types of Communication Facilitation in your case study above:
(i) reflection of feelings (word out an example)
(ii) paraphrasing (word out an example)
(iii) therapeutic silence (word out an example)

d. Walsh (2012) presented nine points to avoid when attending to grievers. Discuss the nine points with illustrations from your case study above.
(28 marks)

e. Plan the intervention. Choose any one of these three contemporary theories and discuss how you would apply it as an intervention for this client.
• Worden’s four tasks
• Klass, Silverman and Nickman’s “continuing bonds”
• Stroebe and Schut’s “dual process” (15 marks)

Question 2
a. Discuss the importance of counsellors having cultural competency in doing grief work.
(6 marks)

b. Elaborate on how counsellors can achieve cultural competency when doing grief work.
(6 marks)

Question 3
Identify and elaborate on the three areas that you would like to work through in getting yourself ready to attend to grievers.
(10 marks)