The Miracle Bearers: Narratives of Birthing Women and Implications for Spiritually Informed Social Work Practice

Schneider, Dana A.

doi:10.1080/01488376.2011.647983

Cited by 11 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…10,57 Notions of spirituality, holism and spiritual care are found referenced throughout midwifery literature. 21,56,58 Undoubtedly the experience of spirituality in and around childbirth is more far reaching than, for example, asking what religion a mother subscribes to, whether blood transfusion is acceptable to a Jehovah witness or how a Maori mother wishes to deal with her baby's placenta.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Spirituality and spiritual care in and around childbirth

Crowther

Hall

2015

Women and Birth

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction of spiritual care guidelines into midwifery practice do not address the spiritual meaningful significance of childbirth. If childbirth spirituality is relegated to a spiritual care tick box culture this would be a travesty. The depth of spirituality that inheres uniquely in the experience of childbirth would remain silenced and hidden. Spiritual experiences are felt and beckon sensitive and tactful practice beyond words and formulaic questions.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Spirituality and spiritual care in and around childbirth

Crowther

Hall

2015

Women and Birth

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…An 'open' question refers to a question in a survey to which possible answers are not suggested and to which the respondents answer in their own words (Popping, 2015). To narrate one's view of a certain topic in this way can be helpful in personal sense-making and reflection (Schneider, 2012). The open survey responses were produced in the context of a research project developing a measuring scale of norm-critical awareness, with data collected from five student classes 2015-2016 at a university college in Sweden, including undergraduate and advanced nursing students and undergraduate social psychiatric nursing students (Tengelin, Cliffordson, Dahlborg, & Berndtsson, 2019).…”

Section: Me Thodmentioning

confidence: 99%

From political correctness to reflexivity: A norm‐critical perspective on nursing education

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Education is important in shaping professional identity, including how one approaches norms and normalisation. In the analysis presented in this study, nursing students' own constructions of norms and normality from the outlook of their education are highlighted and problematised. To deepen the understanding of these matters, the aim of this study was to explore constructions of norms and normality among students in nursing education. Students studying in a nursing department at a Swedish university college were approached and asked to consider open survey questions targeting their views on norms and normality; 154 of them replied. After a discourse analytic approach to the data, we could see how the students constructed norms and normality as (a) instrumental instructions, consisting of easy‐to‐digest statements grounded in the profession's obvious moral and ethical values, (b) limiting and frustrating obstacles for personal freedom that were important to challenge, (c) rules to be obeyed for the stability of society and (d) a matter of reflection, with each individual being responsible for understanding differences in norms, perspectives and opinions. We conclude that nursing education would benefit from norm‐critical perspectives, problematising students' own positions to norms, power and privilege.

show abstract

“…Transitioning to motherhood can be experienced as a complex life changing event in a woman's life, with major shifts in the domains of the physiological (Afoakwah, Smyth, & Lavender 2013;Nelson 2003;Williamson, Leeming, Lyttle, & Johnson 2009), psychological (Hogan 2008Mercer 1986;Nelson 2003;Prinds, Hvidt, Mogensen, & Buus 2014), social (Darvill, Skirton, & Farrand 2011;Demecs, Fenwich, & Gamble 2011;McMahon 1995;Nelson 2003;Prinds et al 2014), and spiritual (Prinds et al 2014;Schneider 2012). These dimensions are overlapping and intertwined, producing experiences that can be both rewarding and challenging.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%