Family-Centred Perinatal Care: Improving Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Care
Cambridge University Press, 4/3/2017
EAN 9781316627952, ISBN10: 1316627950
Paperback, 236 pages, 23.3 x 15.7 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Since childbirth became a medicalized - and usually hospitalized - event a century ago, women's and families' psychosocial needs have been relegated to a somewhat peripheral role within the clinically focussed hierarchy of medical care. This text reinstates psychosocial issues as a primary focus of care, together with clinical excellence. Family-centred care is a familiar phrase in today's maternity services, with professional guidelines and hospital policies including the term in their care protocols; however, few definitions, and no specific standards, for family-centred care exist. While all caregivers and care services are likely to define their care as sensitive to women's needs, and family-centred, the actual implementation of a family-centred approach - despite it being a current fashion in care - is still inadequate. This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal care, and outlines how truly family-centred care can, and should, be implemented, and how, and where, this has been done.
Dedication
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Executive summary
An introduction to family-centred perinatal care
Part I. From Pregnancy to Parenthood
1. Pregnancy and birth are normal, healthy processes
2. Care of families after normal birth
3. Care of sick or preterm newborns and their families
Part II. Practicing Family-Centred Care
4. Clinical care
evidence-based family-centred care
5. Psycho-socially sensitive care
6. Including families in care
7. Inter- and multi-professional care
8. Culturally appropriate care
9. Is there a 'universally ideal birth'?
Part III. Meeting Professional Standards
10. Abuse in obstetric and gynaecological care
11. Monitoring, evaluation and research
12. Goals, ethics and rights in family-centred perinatal care
Part IV. An Unfinished Agenda
13. Best practices from global settings
14. The road ahead
Appendix
family-centred care monitoring questions
Notes
Index.