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A Guide for Health Professionals
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By
Mary Nolan, PhD, MA, BA(Hons), RGN, Antenatal Teacher/Senior Tutor, The National Childbirth Trust, London, UK
Description
How can future parents best be prepared for parenting? How can new parents be helped to achieve optimum parenting in their particular
circumstances? This book explores the thinking behind the Governments "Sure Start" scheme which aims to provide education for parents
in "at risk" social groups.
Audience
Midwives, Practice Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers, General Practitioners, Childbirth Educators, Voluntary sector workers
Contents
Introduction: What is "good-enough" parenting? Supporting adult learning. Parenting education in schools. Parent partnership. Antenatal
education for parenting. Parenting education for men. Supporting young parents. Education for adoptive parenting. Supporting parents
with learning difficulties. Supporting parents of children who are disabled. Parenting education for women in prison. Support and information
needs of parents with children conceived through assisted conception. Evaluating parenting education.
As the editor writes:
"Interest
in education for parenting is currently considerable. The Government's Surestart scheme encourages collaboration between statutory
and voluntary agencies to provide support for and education to parents in designated action zones. The First Wave schemes are now underway.
The most successful are those that have achieved a high degree of parent partnership. This will be one of the themes of the book: adults
learn best when involved in designing their own curriculum and deciding how it should be delivered. Parents know their own circumstances
and locality best, are able to define their educational needs, and can monitor and evaluate how those needs are being met. One chapter
of the book will, therefore, be devoted to parent partnership (Chapter 4).
The opening chapters of the book (Chapters 1,2) will
explore the underpinning knowledge and skills that enable those delivering education to parent to provide appropriate learning opportunities.
Authors will address what constitutes 'good enough parenting' and what skills parents need in order to provide it. Principles of adult
education will be outlined, with discussion of group work skills, one-to-one teaching, communication and listening skills.
Today's
children and young people are tomorrow's parents. The book will therefore examine education for parenting in schools (Chapter 3), and
how this can be delivered within the PSHE schemes of work and across the curriculum. Education for parenting can be started in the primary
school, and should certainly be high on the agenda in secondary schools as young people move closer to their own parenting years.
Antenatal
classes, currently attended by more than half of women pregnant with their first babies, are an ideal opportunity for education about
parenting. Content should certainly move beyond merely preparing parents for the birth of their baby. Discussion of preferred parenting
styles, the opportunity to debrief personal experiences of being parented, and to elicit what children need from their parents and what
parents need to assist them in parenting should also be provided. (Chapter 5)
The education of men as fathers has recently started
to receive a considerable amount of attention with examples of good practice being included in the Surestart manuals. The book
will explore the needs of men as they themselves define them, and strategies for meeting these needs. (Chapter 6)
While it is
the entitlement of every parent to receive education and support to assist her or him in the task of parenting, some groups of parents
have extra needs which require their educators to acquire particular understanding and skills. The book will consider how learning opportunities
around parenting can best be provided for parents in the following groups:
- Those with learning difficulties
- Women
who are in Mother & Baby Units in prison
- Those who are adopting a baby or child/ren
- Those who are parenting a disabled
child
- Very young mothers
- Parents of donor conception children
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The final chapter of the book
will draw together the themes that have emerged from the previous chapters, discuss how parenting education can be evaluated and look
at future directions in parenting education. (Chapter 8)"
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: JAN-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2641-6
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2641-7
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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