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Continuing Educational Offerings for Animal Chaplains
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In the UK
Britain’s first major academic conference on the Relationship between Animal Abuse and Human Violence will be held on Tuesday 18 September 2007, at Keble College, Oxford. The purpose of the conference is to enable people to better understand the nature of animal abuse, the motivation that leads to cruel acts, and the implications for human as well as animal welfare. The conference will document and explore the meaning of this link and the implications that should follow for the making of social and legal policy. The inaugural event of the newly-founded Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (OCAE), the conference has a bold aim: to identify links between violence meted out to animals and to people in order to develop social and legal mechanisms to better safeguard the well-being of both.
The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, director and founder of the OCAE, believes that people concerned for animals have missed something important, saying ‘It isn't just that cruelty to animals is unjust to animals -- there is now increasingly solid evidence that animal cruelty harms human beings’. ‘Since 1987 the psychiatric profession has acknowledged animal abuse as a significant symptom of current and, potentially, future antisocial behaviour,’ explains keynote speaker Frank Ascione, Utah State University’s renowned Professor of Psychology. ‘It is also clear that animal abuse may occur in families where children are maltreated or women are abused by their intimate partners. The Oxford conference will be a landmark in assessing our current knowledge about these issues and will create an agenda for critical research in the years ahead.’
Another eminent speaker, Eleonora Gullone, Associate Professor of Psychology at Australia’s Monash University, points to the increasing recognition of the significance of animal abuse as an indicator of aggressive, violent or abusive behaviour towards humans. `Incorporating this knowledge into policies and procedures is therefore likely to significantly contribute to early intervention efforts aimed at preventing violence from escalating within the family and within society,’ she says. Other speakers include Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics; Jack Levin, Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University; Martin Wasik, Professor of Criminal Justice at Keele University, crown court judge and chair of the UK’s Sentencing Advisory Panel and Alan C. Brantley, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (retired) with the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, USA.
The conference, which draws speakers and delegates from Europe, America, Australasia and Africa, will be opened by Erin Pizzey, the award winning humanitarian and founder of refuges for battered women and children. Charity Rate and Group Discount available. For further details or any booking enquiries please phone the Conference Helpdesk on 020 7089 5216 or email oxfordconference@oxfordanimalethics.com
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The Animal Care College was founded in 1980. It provides over 40 distance learning courses in all aspects of animal care from canine, feline and equine psychology through to pet sitting, pet bereavement counselling and kennel and companion animal management. Most courses are accredited by the Open College Network http://www.nptc.org.uk/training-providers/detail.asp?dsid=154
In the United States
Rev. Therese Modesto offers a professional chaplaincy course on "Chaplain Support for Pet Owners during a National Disaster." The course is an Independent Study taken between 01/01/2007 - 12/31/2007, and has been approved by the APC for 10.5 CCE's.
This distant learning training event comprising 1 session focusing on issues associated with individuals who grieve the loss or death of a pet in a disaster situation. This will over in a systematic method overall aspect of a critical incident/disaster situation with abandonment or death of a pet. Topics presented in a logical progression of critical incident subject development. This course will offer a discussion of the impact of pet grief, historical and terminology related to animal disasters issues and the affects that this may have on the thanostic pastoral ministry, followed by a spiritual reflection. The third component discusses pastoral care and chaplaincy service possibilities. The final section provides further reading suggestion on the topic. You can contact her at Rev. Dr. Terrie Modesto, PhD, Chief Thanatologist, The Tear Center, www.tearcenter.com/index.htm, (410) 928-3524tearcenter@gmail.com.
(Please Note: The Oxford Center for Animal Ethics, The Tear Center, the Association of Professional Chaplains, and "Pet Chaplain" are not affiliated in any way with the Interfaith Association of Animal Chaplains, or AnimalChaplains.com site.)
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