Health Visiting
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
- 3rd Edition - November 1, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Patricia Burrows, Jean Cowie
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 0 0 7 - 4
This popular book encompasses contemporary theory and practice relevant to effective health visiting across all four nations of the United Kingdom, now and into the future. Now in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis popular book encompasses contemporary theory and practice relevant to effective health visiting across all four nations of the United Kingdom, now and into the future.
Now in its third edition, the text has been completely rewritten and updated by new editors Patricia Burrows and Jean Cowie to reflect the many changes that have occurred as health visiting practice evolves. These include a strong focus on parental and child emotional and mental health wellbeing; speech, language and communication development for children; the impact of trauma and adverse childhood experiences; and the relevance of technology to health visiting practice.
The book is strongly grounded in evidence and is suitable both for student health visitors as well as qualified practitioners wishing to further their practice and academic development.
- Written by experts in their field and evidence-based throughout
- Comprehensive coverage of all areas of health visiting to reflect the growing role of the health visitor
- New practical focus on skills such as child assessment and effective communication
- Case studies and practice examples to relate theory to practice
- ‘Thinking spaces’ that enable practice reflection
Students on post-registration specialist health visitor courses
Practising health visitors
Other community nurses
Practising health visitors
Other community nurses
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the third edition
- Part 1: Foundations of Public Health and Health Visiting
- 1: Foundations of public health and health visiting
- Introduction
- Overview of public health
- Underpinning the philosophy and perspectives of public health
- The history of public health: does it matter?
- Health promotion: promoting the public's health
- Health visiting and public health
- Changes to the delivery of health visiting
- Changes in times of crisis
- Conclusion
- 2: The history of health visiting
- Introduction
- Health visiting – a global perspective
- The history of health visiting within the United Kingdom
- The need for a health visiting service
- UK health visiting in the 21st century
- Proportionate universalism
- Early intervention
- Public health priorities
- Integrated services
- Conclusion
- 3: Professional practice and practitioner well-being
- Introduction
- Well-being and work
- The transition from student to health visitor
- Supporting the individual
- Supervision
- Preceptorship and mentoring
- Health visiting team
- Case study
- Inequality
- Organisations and practitioner well-being
- Dealing with reality
- Conclusion
- 4: Social policy, context of public health and the organisation of health visiting service provision
- Introduction
- The national approach to public health within the United Kingdom
- Social policy
- Organisation of health visiting service provision
- Conclusion
- Part 2: Fundamentals of Health Visiting Practice
- 5: Home visiting and therapeutic relationship-building to support the transition to parenthood
- Introduction
- What is a therapeutic relationship and why is it important?
- How health visitors develop effective relationships for practice
- Motivational interviewing
- Authenticity in therapeutic relationships
- Therapeutic relationships and safeguarding
- Trust
- Universal services and therapeutic relationships
- Home visiting and relationship-building
- Community working and relationship-building
- Relationships and inclusive practice
- Trauma-informed practice and relationship-building
- Building relationships with fathers
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in health visiting
- Conclusion
- 6: Assessment
- Introduction
- Clinical decision-making
- The use of assessment tools
- Barriers to using assessment tools
- Assessment and screening tools frequently used in practice
- Working in partnership with parents
- Working with the family
- Strength-based approach and matching agendas
- Virtual assessments and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Conclusion
- 7: Evidence-based practice and early intervention to support children and families
- Introduction
- Early years policy and practice
- What is evidence-based practice?
- Hierarchy of evidence
- Limitations of the hierarchy
- Research and evidence in health visiting
- Evidence-based practice: more than evidence
- Shared decision-making
- Quality improvement
- Quality
- Quality monitoring and review
- Care assurance
- Early intervention
- Early intervention and investment in the early years
- Targeted home visiting
- Human ecology theory
- Early intervention and child development
- Risk
- Managing risk
- Risk assessment
- Conclusion
- 8: Leadership skills for leading health visiting practice
- Introduction
- National context
- Overview of leadership theory
- A model of leadership development for health visiting
- Self-awareness – seeing yourself as a leader/leadership identity
- Developing leadership capability
- Conclusion
- 9: Technology and health visiting practice
- What does technology mean?
- Examples of technology
- The policy context for technology and health visiting practice
- Characteristics of a digitally enhanced health service
- Implications for health visiting practice
- The workforce strategy
- Core digital ability
- Essential digital skills for health visitors
- Health visiting practice
- Record-keeping and documentation
- Record keeping and the law
- To create a SLIC record, the health visitor should
- In order not to create a SLAC record, the health visitor should
- Conclusion
- 10: Facilitating healthy behaviour – an empowerment approach
- Introduction
- The history of behaviour change
- Reducing the intention-behaviour gap–taking action and maintaining it
- Facilitating healthy behaviour: empowering individuals and their families, groups and communities
- Evaluating the impact of health visitor interventions
- Conclusion
- Part 3: Health Visitor Practice-Focused Interventions
- 11: Childhood adversity and trauma
- Introduction
- Outline concepts and definitions
- Trauma, adversity, health and well-being
- Physical environment
- Resources
- Attachment
- Moderate and resolved stress
- Stimulation
- Assessment, analysis and intervention
- Reflective practice
- Conclusion
- 12: Building effective safeguarding skills: A shift from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’ in practice
- Introduction
- The path to achieving ‘unconscious competence’ in practice
- Conclusion
- 13: Perinatal mental health
- Introduction
- Overview of perinatal mental health disorders
- Risk factors for perinatal mental health disorders
- Identification of perinatal mental health disorders
- Post-adoption depression
- Impact of maternal antenatal mental health disorders
- Impact of maternal postnatal mental health disorders
- Impact of paternal mental health disorders
- Financial implication of perinatal mental health disorders
- Impact of Covid-19 on maternal and paternal mental health
- Interventions to support women and their families
- Conclusion
- 14: Emotional and mental health well-being and development of infants and children
- Introduction
- Infant and child mental health in context
- Brain architecture – an overview
- The ‘experience-dependent’ brain
- Impact of neglect on brain architecture
- Parent–infant interaction
- Serve and return interactions
- Rupture and repair
- Theories of emotional development
- Parental representations
- Risk factors that impact on infant and child emotional and mental health, well-being and development
- The impact of parental mental health difficulties on infant and child emotional mental health and well-being
- The impact of domestic violence and abuse on infant and child emotional mental health and well-being
- The impact of substance abuse or misuse on infant and child emotional mental health and well-being
- Summary
- Relationship-based therapeutic interventions
- Programmes that promote attachment and parental sensitivity
- Programmes involving live demonstrations
- Media-based methods
- Baby massage
- Programmes that promote emotional, social and behavioural development
- Professional roles in supporting positive attachments
- Containment
- Providing the experience of a safe, nurturing relationship
- Observing, describing and being curious
- Understanding child development and appropriate expectations
- Harnessing a sense of wonder
- Modelling, in particular play
- Facilitating appropriate support for caregivers individually and, where appropriate, as a couple
- Conclusion
- 15: Communication and language development
- Introduction
- How do children's SLC skills develop?
- Risk of SLC Need
- Identification of Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- The role of the health visitor
- Early intervention approaches
- Home learning Environments
- Supporting children with language difficulties in the early years
- Working in partnership: Health visiting and speech and language therapy
- Conclusion
- 16: Management of common childhood ailments and accident prevention
- Introduction
- Accident prevention
- Health visitor action in accident prevention
- Search for health needs
- Stimulation of an awareness of health needs
- Influence on policies affecting health
- Facilitation of health-enhancing activities
- Management of common childhood ailments
- Role of the health visitor
- Consider the patient
- Caring for the baby or sick child
- Conclusion
- 17: Transition to school
- Introduction
- Transition to school – opportunities and challenges
- What is transition?
- Development and resilience
- Transitions around the UK
- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: November 1, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702080074
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Patricia Burrows
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer Public Health, Programme Director
Public Health Nursing (District Nursing, Health Visiting & School Nursing),
School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, United KingdomJC
Jean Cowie
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Educator, Women, Children, Young People and Families Programme,
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Directorate,
NHS Education for Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom