Supporting Pet Owners Through Grief : A Veterinarian's Guide to Loss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Englar, Ryane E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pet loss.

Grief therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Portland : 5m Publishing, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This reference book provides practitioners and students alike with tools to better understand grief and its impact on the human-animal bond.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78918-266-2

1-78918-263-8

1-78918-264-6

OCLC:

1407315418