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Family Support Unit |
The Family Support Unit comprises of four counsellors, a large team of well trained and supervised volunteer counsellors and two specialist Social Workers.The purpose of the Family Support Unit is to provide psychological and social worker care to patients, their relatives or those close to them and the bereaved.
Counselling
Counselling enables people to talk confidentially about any worries and concerns. This helps to relieve stress and anxiety. Counselling can also help people to understand and deal more effectively with their problems and discover new ways of coping. Individual and family counselling is offered at the hospice or through visits to the home. This includes work with children and adolescents.
Social Workers
The goal of social work in the hospice is to help the patient and family deal with the personal, social and financial problems of serious illness and disability. Serious illness can have great impact on the way we lead our lives. A social worker is available to help with financial distress or to search for practical solutions to ease everyday difficulties.
Any person can access this service personally, through their GP or via a member of staff by requesting to see a team member. Social work advice or counselling support can then be given as appropriate in confidence. The hospice counsellors and social worker are also a part of the Complementary Therapy Clinic providing groupwork and hypnotherapy.
Support In Bereavement
Coming to terms with bereavement and getting back to normal routines is extremely difficult. We offer an ongoing service to family and friends of patients who have died in the Hospice or who have attended the day Hospice. It is led by a counsellor with specialist knowledge of bereavement and a team of trained volunteers. Group meetings are arranged once a month and home visits offered. Contact is made with every family a month after the death has occurred. Support in bereavement has been shown to contribute to the prevention of mental illness.
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