Child, Youth and Family Health: Strengthening Communities
- 2nd Edition - May 1, 2013
- Authors: Margaret Barnes, Jennifer Rowe
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 1 5 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 1 5 5 - 4
A fresh new edition, focusing on the importance of collaboration between healthcare professionals and the community. The second edition of Child, Youth and Family Health build… Read more
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Request a sales quoteA fresh new edition, focusing on the importance of collaboration between healthcare professionals and the community.
The second edition of Child, Youth and Family Health builds its focus on the importance of a collaborative partnership between healthcare professionals and members of the community. This approach is vital in supporting, maintaining and strengthening individual and community health across a range of contexts and life stages.
Child, Youth and Family Health 2e begins by discussing issues and challenges in child, youth and family health, before addressing contexts for nursing and midwifery, all of which helps readers apply theory to practice.
This community healthcare textbook offers additional insight into the importance of the healthcare professional’s role when working with children, young people and their families, and looks at practical approaches such as program development, supporting family transitions and mental health promotion.
There are three new chapters: ‘Communication with children, young people and families – a family strengths-based approach’, ‘Acute illness: Care for the child and their family’ and 'Health promotion through early childhood' along with a range of clinical scenarios, research highlights, practice highlights and critical questions and reflections.
Written by authors who are nurses, midwives, early childhood educators and academics, along with a respected team of contributors and editors, Child, Youth and Family Health 2e provides an engaging perspective
on the fundamental challenges and issues affecting the health and wellness of infants, children, young people and their families in Australia and New Zealand.
- Clinical Scenarios integrated throughout to provide context for practice.
- Research highlights provide examples of the most recent research and evidence based practice.
- Practice highlights feature up-to-date examples of best practice, policies and procedures in Australia and New Zealand.
- Key Points summarise the main issues in each chapter.
- Critical questions and reflection feature at the end of each chapter as a tool for tutorials.
- Useful Resources provide weblinks for up-to-date data, statistics, organisations and programs.
- Extensive references provide for further reading and research.
Undergraduate students (2nd/3rd year primarily) studying core or elective units in child and family health/human development/family and community health/paediatrics/health promotion. Community child health/paediatric students as a postgraduate foundations text and reference. Midwives working in community settings (early discharge, home visiting services). Community nurses and liaison nurses from tertiary health services developing ‘hospital-in-the-home’ services.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Part A: Issues and challenges in child, youth and family health
- Chapter 1: Locating the child, young person and family in contemporary health care
- Introduction
- Contemporary impressions of the family and community
- Family diversity – the new normal
- Health determinants and implications for policy
- Health priorities
- The Australian context
- The New Zealand context
- Nursing within the child, youth and family context
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Developing healthcare programs for the child, young person and family
- Introduction
- Understanding the policy context
- Global health policy perspective
- The national health policy perspective
- The local health policy perspective
- Policymaking and developing healthcare programs
- Managing change
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Towards partnership: Indigenous health in Australia and New Zealand
- Introduction
- Defining Indigenous
- Definition of health and wellbeing
- History of colonisation and its contemporary effects on Indigenous families
- Ongoing impact on contemporary families
- Racism
- Determinants of health and current health status
- The role of nursing and midwifery in reducing inequalities
- Cultural safety and Māori
- Cultural safety/respect from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective
- Working in partnership
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Practice integrity: Advocacy, ethics and legal issues
- Introduction
- Advocacy: What is it?
- Advocacy in the child, youth and family health context
- Human rights, child rights and advocacy
- Practice implications
- Decision-making frameworks
- Practice implications
- Ethical decision making and informed consent in research
- Child protection and legislation
- Therapeutic relationships, advocacy and the context of child protection
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Communication with children, young people and families – a family strengths-based approach
- Introduction
- Historical position of the child in health care and its influence on communication
- Respecting the views of children
- Positive communication – a style of communication to guide practice with children, young people and their families
- Developing trust and sharing decision making through positive communication
- Being held
- Family strengths
- Family strengths assessment: working with children, young people and families
- The Australian Family Strengths Nursing Assessment Guide
- Conducting a family strengths assessment
- Practical tips and techniques for developing a positive communication style with children and families
- Conclusion
- Part B: Practice contexts in child, youth and family health
- Chapter 6: Pregnancy and birth: Health and wellbeing for the woman and family
- Introduction
- Preconception health
- The context of maternity care in Australia and New Zealand
- Concepts of continuity and partnership in maternity care
- Pregnancy: promoting health and preparation for parenthood
- Birth
- The transition following birth
- The importance of attachment
- Attachment and skin-to-skin contact
- Supporting breastfeeding
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Infants and their families
- Introduction
- Responsive parenting and infant development
- Parenting self-efficacy and the parent–infant relationship
- Supporting parents and families
- Infant feeding
- Settling and infant sleep
- Nursing practice promoting safe family sleep environments
- Immunisation
- Assessing growth and development
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Health promotion through early childhood
- Introduction
- A history of holistic views on development, health, wellbeing, care and education
- Contemporary children, families and communities
- Contemporary images of children’s development
- Social, cultural and economic policy contexts for health promotion in early childhood
- Setting the scene: Integrated approaches to promoting development, health, wellbeing and education
- An integrated and partnership approach to promoting children’s development, health and wellbeing in early childhood education and care
- Healthy early years strategies: Promoting health and wellbeing in early childhood
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Acute illness: The child and their family
- Introduction
- Middle-aged children and their families: Australia and New Zealand
- Injury
- Family-centred care: implications for middle childhood and families
- Parents
- Child-centred care: is the child important?
- Contexts of care: hospital, community and home
- Indigenous children
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: The young person
- Introduction
- Health and wellbeing of young people
- Young people and their family
- The young person in a bioecological context
- Protective factors, risk factors and developmental health outcomes
- Spiritual wellbeing and developmental health outcomes
- Promoting resilience
- Health promotion with young people
- Clinical focus for nursing the young person
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Children with chronic health problems and their families
- Introduction
- Chronic health problems in children and young people
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Promoting mental health
- Introduction
- Mental health issues in Australia and New Zealand
- The development of youth mental health services
- The need for better mental health promotion and illness prevention
- The spectrum of interventions – prevention, treatment and wellbeing
- The social determinants of health and mental health
- Vulnerability and resilience: risk and protective factors
- Nurses working in mental health
- A systemic approach
- Developmental stages and mental health promotion: What’s the connection?
- Prevention strategies
- Treatment strategies
- Continuing care or recovery strategies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Loss and grief
- Introduction
- Defining loss, grief and bereavement
- Current trends in thinking on grief and loss
- Assumptive worlds
- Sudden versus expected loss and anticipatory grief
- Grief within the context of the family
- Loss of a child: parental grief
- The grief of other children
- Child development and bereavement
- What might a child understand about death?
- Providing supportive care to families
- Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: May 1, 2013
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone Australia
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729541558
- eBook ISBN: 9780729581554
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Margaret Barnes
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, and Head, School of Nursing and Midwifery, at the University of the Sunshine Coast, QLDJR
Jennifer Rowe
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery and Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD