Casebook: The Life and Times of a Health Visitor
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Casebook: The Life and Times of a Health Visitor

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 4 Feb |Learn more

Casebook: The Life and Times of a Health Visitor

About this book

Everyone experiences struggles and challenges at some point in life. In the UK, if you have children under five years of age, you have the opportunity of support from a highly trained health professional called a health visitor. This often-misunderstood postgraduate role involves helping families to improve their health while navigating the hurdles of life. The emotional mountain of daily struggles can seem overwhelming for young families. The health visiting service offers a metaphorical hand to hold alongside practical help and advice enabling parents to climb life's occasionally difficult and often emotional mountains. To regard health as something that can be created, maintained, and improved is the mission of the health visiting service. Prevention of ill-health has always been seen as imperative. The health visitor encourages families towards this goal by offering support for their family health needs. Through case study this book offers insight into how the health visitor manages to create health and prevent ill-health with some surprising results. Managing the steppingstones to good health and avoiding the pitfalls of poor mental health can often seem impossible for new or even experienced parents. Accepting the helping hand of the health visiting service has the power to deliver a positive and quite profound effect. This book lifts the veil on the largely hidden work of this unsung, health professional. In this book you will find that the role of the health visitor is so much more complex than their famed job of 'just weighing babies.'

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Information

Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781788231077
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information ©
  5. Acknowledgement
  6. Background
  7. The Author
  8. 1. Introduction: Health Visiting Explained
  9. 2. Normal Health Visiting and Vulnerable Clients
  10. 3. The Sleep Clinic
  11. 4. Case Study
  12. Agnes
  13. 6. Disability and Particular Family Needs
  14. 7. Access
  15. 8. Decision-Making and Judgement
  16. 9. Child Protection
  17. 10. Lily and George
  18. 11. Marcus
  19. 12. Sal and Jonah
  20. 13. Awkward Days in Health Visiting Practice
  21. 14. Angelique
  22. 15. The Importance of Resilience in Health Visiting Practice and the Example of Angelique
  23. 16. Postnatal Depression
  24. 17. Monica
  25. 18. Lorraine
  26. 19. Obesity: The Overview
  27. 20. Mona and Graham
  28. 21. Briony and Ted
  29. 22. Estelle
  30. 23. Foster Placements: Charleen and Raj
  31. 24. Domestic Abuse
  32. 25. Teresa
  33. 26. Conclusion
  34. The Ambulance Down in the Valley (1895)