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Handicapped babies: how midwives cope
Author(s) -
HARADA A. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1981.tb00839.x
Subject(s) - nursing , psychology , process (computing) , medical education , medicine , computer science , operating system
Summary Research into families with a handicapped child produces numerous examples of the inadequate ways medical personnel inform parents of their child's condition. In the case of the abnormal neonate, midwives have a part to play in this communicating process; thus helping to lay the foundations for satisfactory adjustment by the parents. This paper suggests that midwives need more appropriate training in this important role.