Applications Open! Professional Certificate in Children and Loss 2025/2026

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in association with Irish Hospice Foundation offer a Professional Certificate in Children and Loss (Level 9). It seeks to equip practitioners with the practical skills to understand and support children on their grief journey.

About the Course

For counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers or others working with children, this two-module postgraduate course equips the learner to understand bereavement and loss and its impact on children and young people. It also promotes the best ways of working with children and young people who have had this experience.

Applications Are Open

Applications are open for the Professional Certificate in Children and Loss commencing 4 September 2025.