Birth and Parenting Skills,

Edition 1 New Directions in Antenatal Education

Editors: By Mary L. Nolan, PhD, MA, BA(Hons), RGN and Julie Foster, BSc, RGN, RM, DipHE

Publication Date: 08 Dec 2004

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A research-based, up-to-the minute account of the current status of antenatal education, focusing on the key challenges it faces in the future, offering suggestions for how these challenges might best be met. It describes some innovative approaches to accessing vulnerable groups of parents and how collaboration between the statutory and voluntary sectors might result in a better educational service for pregnant women and their families. Narratives from parents are analysed and commented upon, and underpinning the book will be an account of how the principles and practices of adult education should inform antenatal education.

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Demonstrates the potential for antenatal education to make a positive impact on women's experience of birth
Points the way to accessing new sources of funding for antenatal classes
Illustrates new teaching strategies with the aim of accessing groups of parents currently not involved with antenatal education
Aims to show how antenatal education can be a central, rather than peripheral part of the holistic care provided to pregnant women and their families

About the author

By Mary L. Nolan, PhD, MA, BA(Hons), RGN, Antenatal Teacher/Senior Tutor, The National Childbirth Trust, London, UK and Julie Foster, BSc, RGN, RM, DipHE, Parent Education Coordinator, Birmingham Women's Health Care NHS Trust, UK

Chapter 1: Childbirth and Parenting Education: what the research says and why we may ignore it Chapter 2 : Context and Purpose: learning styles and principles of adult education Chapter 3: Why Education for Birth is Important Chapter 4: Birthing and Parenting Education for Men Chapter 5: Are Midwives Empowered Enough to Offer Empowering Education? Chapter 6: Innovative Practice in Birth Education: Birmingham Women's Hospital Bith Ideas Workshop 000 Chapter 7: Best Practice in Antenatal EducationImproving services for women of South Asian heritageParent education classes for South Asian Women: SAMPADThe Albany Practice, South East London: antenatal and postnatal groupsThe Bellevue Project: local classes for local women4U Teenage Pregnancy GroupBlackburn Teenage Mothers' GroupThe Cafe Class (National Childbirth Trust)Chapter 8 : Education for Birth and Parenting: where next? Index

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Aimed at all those responsible for leading antenatal classes or organising programmes of parent education, whether in the NHS or the private sector. This book takes a bold groundbreaking approach to parent education, anyone dipping into it for ideas on games or teaching strategies is likely to be disappointed. As well as drawing on their own experiences as antenatal teachers, the editors are joined by other respected authorities in their field. It has proved an invaluable resource when teaching student midwives on a parent education module...an inspiration to those who are striving to improve provision for antenatal/parenthood education. Anabel JayThe Practising Midwife Vol 9 No 5

ISBN: 9780443074745

Page Count: 176

Retail Price :

Antenatal Education, BT 1998, £19.99, sales to date 2858.Education & Support for Parenting, BT 2002, £19.99, sales to date 818Leading Antenatal Classes 2^nd edition (Schott), BfM 2002, £17.99, sales to date 1432.The new proposal is not a teaching manual but rather looks at the place of antenatal education in contemporary maternity care. It reflects up-to-date thinking in adult education, considers funding and collaboration, and discusses how to access key target groups such as fathers, very young parents and parents from ethnic minority groups (all high on the government agenda).

Birth and Parenting Skills,

Editors: By Mary L. Nolan, PhD, MA, BA(Hons), RGN and Julie Foster, BSc, RGN, RM, DipHE

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