About the webinar

Experiencing pregnancy loss or the death of a baby requires tailored post-bereavement care to support parents and their families through a highly sensitive, complex time. This essential webinar equips practitioners with a specialist understanding of perinatal grief and bereavement, ensuring care aligns with best-practice standards.

Bereavement Midwife Eliza Strauss will clarify how this type of loss impacts the family unit and highlight key challenges for parents. The training examines why memory-making is an important part of the grief process and illustrates practical examples of best-practice bereavement care.

Secure your registration to gain expert guidance from a specialist bereavement midwife, empowering you to provide compassionate, quality care to vulnerable families at every point of their painful trajectory.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will have an understanding of:

• Perinatal grief and how it differs from other forms of grief.
• Different types of perinatal loss include miscarriage, ending a pregnancy, stillbirth, and neonatal death.
• Challenges for bereaved parents.
• How to define and translate what ‘parent-centred' care means and why it’s important in the context of perinatal loss.
• How to enhance parenting experiences by illustrating examples of memory-making opportunities.

Who should attend

This webinar is highly relevant for all professionals providing direct care and therapeutic support to parents and families following pregnancy or infant loss.

The target audience includes:

• Health and Community Practitioners
• Individual Counsellors and Therapists
• Midwives and Nurses
• Social Workers and Case Managers
• Psychologists and Clinical Psychologists

About the presenters

The webinar is presented by a highly awarded and passionate expert in perinatal bereavement care:

Eliza Strauss – A bereavement midwife and Founder of The Perinatal Loss Centre in Melbourne, Australia. With a combined career in Nursing and Midwifery spanning over 30 years, she holds qualifications in nursing, midwifery, and bereavement counselling and intervention. Eliza established and continues to run the Bereavement Support Program at her workplace. In 2018, she was awarded the National ’Excellence in Bereavement Care Award’ by the Australian College of Midwives for her crucial work in the area of perinatal loss.

Purchase access

Use the purchase button to process your payment through our secure gateway. As soon as your purchase is complete, we’ll email you the details for immediate access to the recording within our Moodle Learning Management System.

System requirements for online training

To ensure you can participate in this webinar, please have access to the following:

• Desktop or laptop computer
• A reliable, stable internet connection
• Working microphone and speakers
• Webcam (either built-in or external to your computer)
• Headphones (recommended for optimal audio clarity)

Contact us

For further details or questions, please contact our Centre for Learning and Innovation:

Phone: (03) 8573 2222

Email: [email protected]