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The visiting parent: A personal approach to helping parents of infants‐at‐risk
Author(s) -
Livermore Nancy
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0355(198023)1:3<176::aid-imhj2280010307>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - feeling , presentation (obstetrics) , mental health , neonatal intensive care unit , psychology , anxiety , infant mental health , isolation (microbiology) , unit (ring theory) , nursing , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , mathematics education , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , radiology
The Visting Parent Program is a support service for parents of newborn infants hospitalized at the Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Ann Arbor. Selected parents, whose babies have gone home, become volunteers to visit new parents and provide support to help counteract the feelings of anxiety and isolation of the new parents. In this transcription of a workshop presentation at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, the Holden social worker describes the program and 4 visiting parents tell of their feelings when their infant was at Holden and their experiences and strategies as visiting parents.