Pet Bereavement Counselling

Foundation Module 1.

Phase one of this module provides exploration into the definition of counselling skills, clarification of the distinction between using counselling skills within a work role as opposed to deploying such skills within the role of a professional counsellor, guidance on ethical boundaries and the framework for adopting the use of counselling skills.

Learn and develop the use of counselling skills to undertake self assessment relating to personal suitability and effectiveness when adopting the use of counselling skills.

Explore features within evident diversity which impact upon the helper, those supported by helpers, and the resulting interpersonal relationship   Define the circumstances where counselling skills can suitably be applied within an ethical structure, in conjunction with circumstances where delegates might personally adopt the use of such skills within the context of their encounters with pet or animal owners or carers.  

Phase one content:  

• Considerations for those who intend to adopt the use of counselling skills to provide support to others
• Helpers and clients as diverse individuals
• The helping relationship
• The helping process
• Ethical, professional, and legal guidelines for counsellors and those who use counselling skills to support others
• Theoretical orientations within the framework of counselling skills practice

Phase Two content:

Developing counselling skills:

• Empathy
• Listening Skills
• Congruence
• The use of questions
• Summarising and Paraphrasing
• Reflecting feelings
• Self disclosure
• Manage client resistance and assist with referral
• Assist clients with: relaxation, self expression, personal boundaries, perception of self and others
• Structure a single, or sequence of, helping interactions

• ‘Normalising' and providing reassurance when using counselling skills to support others

• Offer challenges and feedback
• Self and peer evaluation of counselling skill development

Phase Three content:

• Defining bereavement, loss and separation
• Introduction to human attachment theory and its relevance to the process of bereavement and loss
• Global and individual responses to grief and bereavement? (including evident cultural variations)
• Theoretical perspective of stages in a loss and grief process
• Considerations relating to anticipated and unexpected bereavement
• Spiritual belief systems and the impact upon bereavement

Maximum of 6 months to complete module and related course work/ assignments

Course fee :£275