Care of the dying patient with AIDS

The effectiveness of parenting programmes facilitated by health visitors

“…The particular programmes facilitated in the DownLisburn Trust use the ‘What can a parent do?’ handbooks by the Family Caring Trust (Quinn & Quinn 1987). The aim of the programmes is to provide a high‐quality service offering a preventative model of care that is easily accessible and designed to explore the positive aspects of parenting including the cognitive elements.…”

Improving parenting: the why and the how

“…As well as parenting and other outcomes related to emotional and social development, they show impact on a wide range of outcomes of traditional interest to paediatricians such as immunisation and injury 25 26. Many of the UK developed parenting programmes for preschool and school age children27 28 have a relationship focus. These stand a greater chance of influencing the wide range of outcomes described above than do the strictly behaviour management programmes.…”