Pet Bereavement

Date: Tuesday 21st August, 2012
Start time: 9:00 AM
Duration: 4 hour(s)
Cost: £100

Provider: Excel CPD Ltd

This programme provides essential knowledge and skills to enable ethical bereavement care in veterinary practice. Insights into the psychology of human-animal relationships (HCARs) are also included, as to understand loss, we must understand attachment. Case study examples illustrate how the strength of the HCAR, personal loss histories and owners' current circumstances influence grief reactions. The most current theories applied for understanding of pet bereavement will be introduced through examples from practice and discussion, enabling identification of how gender, access to support networks and health status may impact on grief. Safe strategies for working with clients experiencing grief arising from euthanasia will be introduced, along with practical considerations for how to set up and run nurse facilitated continuing care-clinics (a fusion of palliative and bereavement care). Specific areas to be covered The human-companion animal relationship: its influence in pet bereavement Understanding pet bereavement as a disenfranchised loss Establishing boundaries to ensure safe and ethical bereavement care Models of grief and how these can be applied to understand and work with grieving clients in practice Continuing care clinics: methods for supporting clients through anticipatory grieving and responsibility grief Pre-euthanasia discussions After-death body-care options and memorialisation Self-care, safe practice and support USE CODE 'VetClick' TO RECEIVE 10 DISCOUNT

Who is it for?

Veterinary Surgeons, Nurses, Receptionists and Practice Managers

The Speakers

Susan Dawson PhD MEd MBPsS MBACP Psychologist and Grief Counsellor Animal Kind UK

The Venue

Holiday Inn, York

Number of CPD hours this event can be recorded as

3.5 hours

Registration and Booking

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