title: Postnatal support. Listening: an under-valued health visiting skill.
abstract: The experience of being listened to can be a turning point in people's lives, particularly in the early months of parenthood, write Shona Reed-Purvis and Sally Dakin. This is a time when health visitors are ideally placed to offer emotional support. But training may be necessary to help the practitioner move beyond the traditional directive role engendered by old-style nurse training and expected by many clients, and to encourage the client to take control. Here they describe a training programme developed at the request of Oxford City health visitors to help them use their skills more effectively.
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authors.lastname: Reed-Purvis
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authors.lastname: Dakin
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011181:Postnatal Care; D012944:Social Support