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LOSS: Leaving Our Soulful Signature (Guiding Clients through Pet Loss)

Virtual
On Demand
1.25 CE Hour On Demand
Clinical

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Description

This session will help educate attendees on how to communicate on a more personal level with clients who have lost their pet, by identifying different experiences of pet loss (including complicated and traumatic loss), learning physical and emotional-related aspects of grief, and knowing empathetic language for calls and meetings. People will also learn five helpful strategies in leaving a soulful signature in their clients’ hearts during pet loss (support groups, donations, remembrance ceremonies, online memorials/candlelight services, and resource library) and understand compassionate communication with clients of all ages (children, teenagers, adults, senior citizens).

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to help attendees learn to communicate with clients experiencing anticipatory grief and pet loss in an empathetic way, along with leaving their soulful signature through 5 tools to help people honor their beloved pets.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Give 3-4 examples of empathetic communication with clients.

  • Identify 3-4 experiences of pet loss.

  • Demonstrate how to start a support group, donation, remembrance ceremony, online memorials, and provide resources for those who have experienced pet loss.

Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by International Association of Veterinary Social Work . There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
LOSS: Leaving Our Soulful Signature (Guiding Clients through Pet Loss)
Anna McClain (PGSS-C)

Anna McClain (PGSS-C) was born and raised in Orange, California and has treasured animals her whole life. She graduated in 2006 with a BA in Sociology from Cal State Fullerton University and has been certified as a pet loss grief support specialist since 2015. Her PAWS Pathway counseling focuses on the unique human-animal bond and is in honor of her chocolate poodle, Alfie, who passed away in 2016. Anna also has multiple AA/AS degrees in Psychology, Animal Science, Livestock Management, and Administration of Justice, and has aspirations to go for her MSW in veterinary social work over the next few years.  She currently works as a support specialist for DVMcenter and MN Pets. Anna carries a deep passion for helping people through the heartache of pet loss and is also a freelance writer for Animal Wellness magazine.

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