Engaging fathers: Acknowledging the barriers

Bateson, Karen; Darwin, Zoë; Galdas, Paul; Rosan, Camilla

doi:10.12968/johv.2017.5.3.126

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“…Potentially, partners may be well placed to help women assess their mental health and, where needed, seek help directly. This supports the idea that care should be family-centred to meet the needs of the woman, her partner and their baby (Bateson et al, 2017).…”

Section: Familysupporting

confidence: 60%

What enables or prevents women with depressive symptoms seeking help in the postnatal period?

Newman

Hirst

Darwin

2019

British Journal of Midwifery

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Section: Familysupporting

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What enables or prevents women with depressive symptoms seeking help in the postnatal period?

Newman

Hirst

Darwin

2019

British Journal of Midwifery

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“…Based on the continuum of family‐focused activities (Leonard et al, ), health visitors engaged in low levels of FFP. As previously discussed, while, partners should be directly supported by health visitors (DOHSS&PS, ), others have also found that ‘the family’ is often mistakenly interpreted as the mother–infant dyad (Baldwin, ; Bateson et al, ; Humphries & Nolan, ). At the centre of FFP is the concept of family and the way health visitors conceptualize the family and roles of members in it influences their FFP.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Findings of this study suggest that health visitors' perceptions of the family were based on stereotypical gender roles, such as fathers as the bread winners and mothers as carers, which led to them viewing partner's needs as secondary to that of mothers and children. Having a female‐centric health visiting system has been suggested to reinforce the feminine nature of care (Bateson et al, ; Page & Whitting, ). Therefore, if health visitors' FFP is to move beyond the mother–infant dyad to encompass partners, their conceptualization of the family and fathers' roles must be challenged.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recognizing the impact of maternal mental illness on fathers' health and also fathers' health on the family, it is advised that fathers and partners should also be directly involved in health visiting services (DOHSS&PS, ). However, while current guidance advises that health visitors look beyond the child in all areas of their practice to consider the family as a whole (Lowe, ), research suggests that ‘the family’ is often mistakenly interpreted as the mother–infant dyad (Bateson, Darwin, Galdas, & Rosan, ) and that fathers are not sufficiently engaged and supported (Humphries & Nolan, ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Predictors of family focused practice among health visitors: A mixed methods study

Leonard

Linden

2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims To determine what predicts health visitors’ family‐focused practice with mothers who have mental illness. To explore health visitors’ experiences of family‐focused practice and what factors, if any, enable and/or hinder it. Design A sequential mixed‐methods design was employed. Methods In Phase 1, a total of 230 health visitors, in five Health and Social Care Trusts in the UK were recruited using convenience sampling and completed the Family Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire. Three multiple regression models were developed to test whether workload (Model I), professional knowledge (Model II) and health visitors’ professional and personal experience (Model III) predicted their family‐focused practice. In Phase 2, 10 health visitors, who completed the questionnaire, participated in semi‐structured interviews to describe their experiences of family‐focused practice. The data collection of the two phases was conducted from September 2017 ‐ September 2018. Results Model III was significant. While personal experience of parenting was positively associated with family‐focused practice, length registered as a health visitor and personal experience of mental illness was negatively associated. Qualitative findings suggested that increasing years of professional experience and personal experience of mental illness enabled health visitors to support mothers and their children, but not other adult family members, including partners. Limited skills and knowledge to support mothers with severe mental illness (i.e. schizophrenia) hindered family‐focused practice. Conclusion This study advances understanding of how health visitors’ professional and personal experiences can influence their family‐focused practice and highlights the importance of organizations promoting their capacity to support mothers with severe mental illness and to include mothers’ partners. Impact A clear understanding of factors affecting health visitors’ capacity to engage in family‐focused practice will help to inform policy, education and practice in health visiting; with potential to improve outcomes for the whole family.

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“…These comments suggest a gap between FCC theory and father inclusive practice; Health Visitors are now acknowledging the gaps in evidence and barriers to effecting inclusivity (Bateson, et al, 2017).…”

Section: Theme Prevention Better Than Curementioning

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Perspectives on supporting fathers affected by postnatal depression and a history of violence

Laws

Keeling

2018

Journal of Health Visiting

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Abstract:Intimate partner violence during the perinatal period is a significant public health problem that remains under-screened, under-diagnosed and under-treated. The establishment of evidence based guidelines to aid Health Visitors in providing provide support for couples experiencing violence has been hampered by the complex interplay between maternal and paternal mental health problems and violence.Our study explored the experiences of UK fathers voluntarily engaged with services designed to redeem their ideation to violence.The findings indicate that a tendency to violence was increased by stresses associated with the transition to parenthood. Men felt pressured by concerns for their partners' mental health, changes to their relationship with the mother, sleep disturbances and the burden of infant care they assumed when the mother could no longer cope.Health Visitors are ideally situated to assess for factors linked to the emergence of violence and pre-empt the support needed to minimise its occurrence.

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Engaging fathers: Acknowledging the barriers

Cited by 42 publications

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What enables or prevents women with depressive symptoms seeking help in the postnatal period?

What enables or prevents women with depressive symptoms seeking help in the postnatal period?

Predictors of family focused practice among health visitors: A mixed methods study

Perspectives on supporting fathers affected by postnatal depression and a history of violence

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