Anglia Ruskin University: MOD005914 - Lily Mae Foundation Presentation

This presentation provides an evaluation of the Lily Mae Foundation, a UK-based charity offering support to families who have experienced the loss of a child. The presentation details the services offered by the foundation, including memory boxes and assistance with dealing with loss, and discusses relevant counselling theories such as cognitive, behavioral, and psychoanalytic approaches. It analyzes the strengths of the foundation, such as its aid to families and facilitation of cherished memories, while also acknowledging weaknesses like the inability to implement all promised programs. References from the provided material are included, offering a comprehensive overview of the foundation's impact and approach to supporting families through difficult life events.

Supporting Significant Life
Events and Coping

Table of content
 Services of Lily Mae
 Counselling theory
 Strength and weakness
 References

Evaluation of how services helps families, cares and friends
to provide support for individuals experiencing life events.
 Lily Mae foundation is the UK based
registered charity which is providing
much needed support to parents and
families who have lost their child at still
birth, miscarriage or medical treatment.
It was established in July 2010 and
officially it was started in the year 2012.
foundation raise money for SANDS, a
global charity (Memory boxes, 2021).

Lily Mae services
 Foundation provides services high helps families and relatives.
 These services helps families in collecting their child memories.
 They are providing requisite assistance to parents so that they
can deal with losses.
 They are delivering range of community service to families and
parents which have lost their babies.
 They are increasing the amount of options that are available for
maternity care.

Continue
 Foundation provide memory boxed to
the families. As they are their priority.
Foundation have choose memory
boxes because gaining charity status
has enabled company to set out their
aims and objectives for future period
but it is more important it has allowed
what id money raised for.

Counselling theory
 Cognitive counselling theory: It holds people and
grandparents and families in psychological and emotional
difficulties when there thinking is out of sync (Mischel and
Kitsantas, 2020).
 Behavioural theory: This is the another counselling theory
which helps families in engaging in problematic thinking and
behaviour when their environment supports it.
 Psychoanalytic: It is counselling theory which holds
psychological trouble of grandparents and families results from
present day power of unconscious motivation stemming from
past human relationship and experiences.

Strength and weakness
Strength:
 Strength of the services is that it aid families in caring for parents which have
suffers a lot by loss of their baby.
 They enable for holding of baby cherished memories.
 They aid in dealing with the losses.
 They helps in maintaining fresh and balanced memories.
 Weakness
 Foundation was unable to implement all programmes which it has promised.
 Foundation was unable to cover all parental facilities.
 It was unproductive in coping with material mental health.

References
 Memory boxes, 2021. [online] Available through <
https://www.lilymaefoundation.org/memory-boxes/>
 Mischel, J. and Kitsantas, A., 2020. Middle school students'
perceptions of school climate, bullying prevalence, and social
support and coping. Social Psychology of Education, 23(1), pp.51-
72.
 Waugh, C.E., Shing, E.Z. and Furr, R.M., 2020. Not all
disengagement coping strategies are created equal: Positive
distraction, but not avoidance, can be an adaptive coping
strategy