Safeguarding and Protecting Children, Young People and Families - A Guide for Nurses and Midwives

Helping to equip student nurses and midwives with the confidence, knowledge and skills needed for working with families to support and protect children, the book covers the full spectrum of safeguarding work, from professional issues such as boundaries, confidentiality, referral and accountability through to multi-agency working.

List of contents

Part I: Policies and theories
Policy to practice - Lynn Kelly, Gill Watson and Sandra Rodwell
Key themes in safeguarding and protecting children and young people - Sandra Rodwell and Gill Watson
Attachment - Gill Watson and Lynn Kelly
Risk assessment - Sandra Rodwell and Gill Watson
Part II: Relationships, communication and practice
Vulnerability in pregnancy and childbirth - Joan Cameron
Supporting the development of positive parenting - Susan Redman, Morag Rush and Gill Watson
Family-centred care - Jo Corlett and Gill Watson
Engaging with children, young people and their families - Sandra Rodwell and Gill Watson
Part III: Factors impacting on practice
Responding to domestic abuse in the lives of children - Sandra Rodwell
Getting it right: supporting professional responses to child safeguarding and protection - Gill Watson and Sandra Rodwell

Report

This book provides an intelligent platform to inform students and future leaders on providing family-centred care.


Dr Julia Egan, Consultant in Public Health Nursing, NHS Tayside

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Rodwell, Gill Watson, Gill Rodwell Watson
• Assisted by: Sandra Rodwell (Editor), Rodwell Sandra (Editor), Gill Watson (Editor), Watson Gill (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9781446248904
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-4890-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child welfare, Midwifery, Child welfare and youth services