Lecturers and Assistants

Urška Petak

Urška Petak, predavateljica

Cooperation:  Lecturer

Contact hours: By agreement

E-mail: urskapetak@gmail.com

Research field: grief, bereavement, palliative care

Lecturer at subjects:
1st level: Dying, Death and Paliative Care

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Curriculum Vitae:

Graduate of Psychosocial Assistance, Master of Psychosocial Counseling, specialist in integrative Psychotherapy under supervision. At the Faculty of applied Social Studies she completed her studies in Psychosocial Assistance and later the master s program in Psychosoial Counseling. She is a doctoral candidate in the Psychosocial Studies program. In 2022 she completed her Trauma and Grief Component Therapy studies at The Hackett Center. She is a founder and head of the Tvoja Pot Institute, which offers compassionate, profesional and comprehensive psychosocial support to individuals, children and adolescents and adults who are struggling with various obstacle that life brings. She works in the areas of individual, partner and group psychosocial counseling, bereavement of children and youth, and offers support to families in the grieving process. She leads bereavement groups for children, adolescent and parents, as well as groups for parents of children with special needs. She works as an elective course lecturer at the Faculty of applied Studies. As the author of the program ” Psychosocial help with experience of bereavement” she educates professionals about the approach and support during the experience of bereavement. She wrote book Tvoja Pot, Sopotnik skozi izkušnjo žalovanja, recently she published another book Spregovorimo o smrti in žalovaju, priporočila in smernice ravnanja v primerih soočanja z dogodkom smrti v šolah, intended for professional audience in schools.