The Foundation for Infant Loss Course for Counselling Professionals working with Bereaved Parents

from The Foundation for Infant Loss Training

CPD: Certificate is Provided - 8 hours of CPD and use of the Foundation for Infant Loss Logo as an accredited professional is provided on completion of the course.

What will the course cover?:

• An overview of pregnancy and infant loss - statistics
• Is Pregnancy and Infant Loss still a taboo?
• Types of loss eg miscarriage, stillbirth, neonate, SIDS
• The 24 week mark and what this affects
• Parents perspectives of loss
• Parents perspectives of positive and negative care given to them so that lessons may be learnt
• Breaking bad news
• Stillbirth: working with families who may be scared in spending time with their baby and how to work with those families
• Taking care of yourself as a professionals: concerns surrounding working with infant loss (what to say, what not to say, the physical appearance of baby, how to keep emotions in check, ensuring you as a professional have an outlet)
• Understanding Options, choices and Guidance: When a baby dies in hospital
• Front line care: Bereavement suites, what is a cold cot?
• The option of taking baby home
• How different religious and cultural beliefs will affect parents behaviors to their baby including that of the travelling community
• Making memories
• Memory boxes
• The last memory: The last goodbye
• Bereavement photography
• The mortuary, Hospital chaplains, funeral director and the counsellor and the importance of working together
• Post Mortem consent
• The Human Tissues Act
• When a Twin dies
• Resources for a baby's funeral
• The Grief cycle
• Supporting children
• Support for Dads
• Support for Grandparents
• Healing after loss
• Remembering Baby: anniversaries
• Subsequent pregnancies after loss: The emotional rollercoaster
• Support Organisations that can help
• Further suggested Reading

This training includes both E Books "Pregnancy and Infant Loss: A Guide for Professionals" and "Little wings - A Bereaved Parents story. You may distribute these books to parents freely.

Buy the books here: https://www.foundationforinfantloss.co.uk/shop/

Currently reduced to £35 [for a short period]

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