Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief

Name: Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief | A Veterinarian's Guide to Loss
ISBN: 978-1-78918-264-4

A Veterinarian's Guide to Loss

Ryane E. Englar Jill Englar(Autor*in)

5M Books Ltd (Verlag)

Erschienen am 31. Oktober 2023

400 Seiten

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Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Human-Animal Bond, Grief, Grieving, Death, and Dying
1 Beyond Self: Animal-Animal Interactions, Human-Animal Interactions, and the Evolution of the Human-Animal Bond
1.1 The Capacity for Animals to Recognize Members of the Same Species
1.2 Interspecies Connections Between Non-Human Animals
1.3 Animal Friendships
1.4 Human-Animal Interactions
1.5 The History of Domestication
1.6 The Beginnings of Animal-Assisted Therapy and Service Animals
1.7 Enhancers of the Human-Animal Bond
1.8 The Evolving Roles of Companion Animals
1.9 The Impact of Global Pandemic on the Human-Animal Bond
1.10 The Human-Animal Bond and Wildlife
1.11 The Human-Animal Bond and Companion Animals
1.12 Portrayal of the Human-Animal Bond by the Arts
1.13 Defining the Human-Animal Bond
1.14 Evaluating the Benefits of the Human-Animal Bond and Their Implications
2 The Circle of Life and Loss: An Introduction to Grief and Grieving
2.1 The Overarching Impact of Loss
2.2 Examples of Non-Death Loss
2.3 The Permanence of Loss Through Death
2.4 The Uniqueness of Grief
2.5 Defining Grief
2.6 Grief as a Journey
2.7 Grief as a Process
2.8 The Stages of Grief
2.9 Beyond the Stages of Grief
2.10 Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Death and Dying
3 The Multifaceted Impact of Grief: Normal Reactions and Responses Among the Bereaved
3.1 The Transience of Life and the Permanence of Loss
3.2 Defining Impact
3.3 The Many Impacts of Grief
3.4 Physical Manifestations of Grief
3.5 Cognitive and Social Manifestations of Grief
3.6 Emotional Manifestations of Grief
3.7 Spiritual Manifestations of Grief
3.8 "Moving With" Rather than "Moving On"
4 Children, Adolescence, and Grief
4.1 Prevalence of Bereavement Among Children
4.2 The Primary and Secondary Impacts of Bereavement on Children
4.3 Unique Aspects of Childhood Bereavement
4.4 Children Under the Age of Three Years Old
4.5 Nagy's Three-Stage Model of Childhood Bereavement
4.6 Children Between the Ages of Three and Five (Stage 1)
4.7 Children Between the Ages of Five and Nine (Stage 2)
4.8 Pre-teens (Stage 3)
4.9 Staging Childhood Grief as Being Descriptive Rather than Prescriptive
4.10 Delayed Impacts of Childhood Bereavement
4.11 Grief is Not About "Fixing"
4.12 Adolescent Grief
4.13 Avoiding Clichés When Navigating Adolescent and Adult Grief
4.14 Don't Say "You Know" When You Don't
4.15 Be Honest and Be Present
5 Complicated Grief
5.1 Grief as an Adaptive Process
5.2 Becoming "Stuck" in Grief
5.3 Symptoms Associated with Complicated Grief
5.4 Similarities and Distinctions Between Acute Grief and Complicated Grief
5.5 Similarities and Distinctions Between Complicated Grief and Depression
5.6 The Health-Related Impacts of Complicated Grief on the Bereaved
5.7 Complicated Grief, Maladaptive Thoughts, and Risk of Death by Suicide
5.8 Risk Factors for Complicated Grief
5.9 Supporting Those Who Experience Complicated Grief
6 Disenfranchised Grief: The Invisible Wound
6.1 Introducing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief
6.2 Examples of Disenfranchised Grief
6.3 Hierarchy of Loss
6.4 The Words and Actions Underlying Disenfranchised Grief
6.5 The Feelings Associated with Disenfranchised Grief
6.6 The Impact of Disenfranchised Grief
6.7 Coping with Disenfranchised Grief
7 When the Loss of a Companion Animal Is not Recognized: Pet Loss as a Unique Form of Disenfranchised Grief
7.1 Nina's Natural Wonder: Part I - The Death of a Best Friend
7.2 Nina's Natural Wonder: Part II - Three Months Later, On the Anniversary of Her Birth
7.3 Nina's Natural Wonder: Part III - What People Said
7.4 Bailey's Crème Brûlée: Part I - Celebrating Her Sixteenth Birthday
7.5 Bailey's Crème Brûlée (April 12, 2004 - October 17, 2022): Part II - The Death of My Baby
7.6 Bailey's Crème Brûlée: Part III - A Significant Transitional Period in My Life
7.7 Bailey's Crème Brûlée: Part IV - What People Said
7.8 The Significance of Pet Loss
8 Suffering, Quality of Life, Anticipatory Grief, and Pet Loss: Preparing for the Ultimate Goodbye
8.1 Shared Decision-Making
8.2 Advocacy for Veterinary Patients
8.3 The Subjectivity of Suffering
8.4 Quality Versus Quantity of Life
8.5 Assessing Quality of Life
8.6 Initiating Conversations about Quality of Life
8.7 The Struggle to Embrace Challenging Conversations about Quality of Life
8.8 Lessons from Human Healthcare
8.9 What Do Veterinary Clients Want?
8.10 Goals of Care (GOC) Conversations
8.11 Anticipatory Grief
8.12 A Case Study in Anticipatory Grief: Peabody, the Bichon Frise
Part Two: Communication Skills and Other Tools That Build Partnership with Clients During Times of Loss
9 Shared Decision-Making Before, During, and After Euthanasia
9.1 Euthanasia, Defined
9.2 Euthanasia as a Medical Procedure
9.3 The Roles and Responsibilities of the Veterinary Team to the Patient at End of Life
9.4 The Roles and Responsibilities of the Veterinary Team to the Client at End-of-Life Consultations
9.5 Making the Choice to Euthanize
9.6 Deciding Where to Euthanize
9.7 Deciding Whether to Be Present for Euthanasia
9.8 Preparing the Client for Euthanasia
9.9 Walking the Client Through Euthanasia
9.10 Aftercare
9.11 Memorialization
9.12 Ways that the Veterinary Team Can Honor the Patient After Death
10 When Loss is Sudden, Traumatic, or Unanticipated
10.1 Empathizing with the Bereaved when Loss Involves a Lengthy or Otherwise Unique Relationship
10.2 The Struggle to Relate to Other Types of Loss that Clients Experience
10.3 The Impact of Finances on Patient Lifespan
10.4 Beyond Cost of Care
10.5 Considering Client Choices and Redefining Ours
10.6 Demonstrating Regard for Clients in Their Time of Need
10.7 Navigating Clients' Reactions to Sudden, Unexpected Loss, Part I: It's All My Fault
10.8 Navigating Clients' Reactions to Sudden, Unexpected Loss, Part II: It's All Your Fault
10.9 Loss of Pet Ownership
10.10 Unresolved Grief When Patients Go Missing
10.11 Unsolved Mysteries and the Role of Necropsies
Part Three: Accepting and Affirming That Healthcare Is Challenging: What it Takes to Rebuild the Veterinary Team
11 When Caring Hurts: Acknowledging Burnout, Addressing Compassion Fatigue, and Building Resilience
11.1 Expectations that Healthcare Workers Have for Themselves
11.2 Daily Challenges Faced by Healthcare Workers
11.3 Veterinary-Specific Challenges
11.4 The Impact of the Global Pandemic on Healthcare Workers
11.5 Defining Burnout
11.6 The Multifaceted Impact of Burnout
11.7 Burnout Versus Compassion Fatigue
11.8 Veterinary Well-being
11.9 Considering the Future of Veterinary Medicine Through an Alternate Lens
11.10 Building Resilience
Part Four: Developing Reflective Practice
12 End-of-Chapter Reflection Questions Written in partnership with Teresa Graham Brett, JD
Part Five: Using the Literary Arts to Explore Grief: Poems and Stories of Bereavement
13 Poems
Please Be Gentle: An After Loss Creed - Jill B. Englar
Please Be Patient - Jill B. Englar
A Time to Mourn - Jill B. Englar
Graveside - Jill B. Englar
The Day You Died - Ryane E. Englar
14 Stories
Harvey: A Story of Disenfranchised Grief - Jill B. Englar
Max - Jill B. Englar
Boo - Jill B. Englar
Derrick - Jill B. Englar
Appendix: Bereavement Resources
Index

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