Someone in Your Corner: What a Veterinary Social Worker Can Do for You and Your Pet
About this episode
The episode discusses the role of veterinary social workers in supporting pet parents through grief and end-of-life decisions.
When you're caring for a pet through serious illness, navigating end-of-life decisions, or grieving a loss that the people around you don't fully understand — it can feel like you're completely on your own. In this episode of Peace of Mind for Pet Parents, Karen Wylie, EdD, and Gail Pope welcome Judith Eve Rosen, LCSW — a licensed clinical social worker, veterinary social worker, and author of Life After Pet Loss: Daily Reflections for Working Through Grief — to talk about a field that most pet parents have never heard of, but almost all of us need. Judith describes how a chance moment in a veterinary waiting room changed the direction of her career — and how she discovered that veterinary social work reaches far beyond the clinic walls. In this first of four conversations, Karen and Gail explore with Judith the full scope of what veterinary social workers do: supporting grieving pet parents, addressing compassion fatigue in veterinary staff, advocating for the human-animal bond in healthcare settings, and working at the intersection of animal welfare and family safety. You'll also hear something that may surprise you: what veterinarians find most morally painful in their work —…
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