| CODE | COU5152 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Intra and Inter-Personal Helping Skills in Midwifery | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Counselling | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The first part of the study-unit will take the form of Lectures in a classroom setting with work in triads. It will start with an introduction addressing intrapersonal skills including self awareness, reflexivity and decision making and taking. This will be followed by interpersonal skills training that will include attending, listening, basic empathy, probing, advanced empathy, giving and receiving feedback, challenging, immediacy and goal setting. The second part of the study-unit will be in a workshop format, where the students will work at length with their lecturer and their peers on thematic material that may be present during their work as midwives. Students will learn how to recognise and be aware of issues and how to react compassionately to them. This will include childhood unfinished business, unresolved traumas, fears and current difficult situations like bereavement and bad news. The students will present their own issues or other thematic material that will cover the above-mentioned situations and will engage in deep understanding to react compassionately to them. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to equip the midwifery student with awareness, intra and inter-personal helping skills and reflexivity training as well as specific helping competencies that can present themselves in normal and crisis situations in midwifery. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify personal principles, values, beliefs and behaviours that can impact the midwife-mother process; - Identify cultural contexts that present diverse issues and backgrounds; - Conceptualise the helping process; - Identify key attitudes and competencies that help address crises situations. -Conceptualise reflexivity and deep understanding to help them understand how their communication and compassion will impact the mothers and their partners and relatives. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: -Apply intrapersonal skills and reflexivity arising from pregnancy, delivery and post partum situations; - Demonstrate competence in essential skills including physical attending, basic empathy, probing, advanced accurate empathy, challenging, immediacy, giving feedback and goal setting; - Apply helping competencies to specific midwife situations including breaking bad news, diagnosis, family planning and helping mothers and parents throughout the child bearing process; - Conduct sessions involving both helping and midwifery skills. - Demonstrate competence in using reflexivity to become sensitive to their own personal needs as professionals working with persons in highly sensitive situations. -Apply appropriate methods to help the mothers and their loved ones to face the experience of ante-natal, birth and post-natal in the best possible way. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: -Bolton, G and Deiderfield, R. (2018). Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development. 5th Edition. Sage Publications - Egan, G. (2017). The Skilled Helper. Europe second edition, Cengage. - England, C., Morgan, R. (2012). Communication Skills For Midwives: Challenges In Everyday Practice. 1st edition, McGraw Hill Open University Press UK. Supplementary Readings: - England, C., Raynor, M.D. (2010). Psychology for midwives: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium 1st Edition, McGraw Hill Open University Press UK. - Capuzzi, D & Gross, D.R (1997). Introduction to the counseling profession. London:Allyn & Bacon. (stated chapters). - Compas, B.E., Gotlib, I.H., (2002). Introduction to clinical psychology. New York: McGraw Hill. - Kingdon, C. (2009).Sociology for midwives. Allen Publications UK. - Loewenthal, D. (2005). Psychotherapy, ethics and the relational. In L. Hoshmand (Ed.), Culture, psychotherapy and counselling: Critical and integrative perspectives. London: Sage Publications. - Loewenthal, D. (2007). Case studies in relational research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. - McLeod, J (2009). An introduction to counseling (4th ed.). . Buckingham: Open University Press. - Phares, J., Trull, T.J., (2001). Clinical psychology. London: Brooks/Cole. (stated chapters) - Raynor, R. & England, C. (2010). Psychology for Midwives - Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium. McGraw Hill: Open University Press. - Rogers, C. R. (1996). On becoming a person. London: Constable. - Sully, P. & Dallas, J. (2010). Essential Communication Skills for Nursing and Midwifery. (2nd ed.). Mobsy: Elsevier. - West, J, & Spinks, P. (1988). Clinical psychology in action. London: Butterworth. - Woolfe, R & Dryden, W (1996). Handbook of counseling psychology |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Midwifery | ||||||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study and Group Learning | ||||||||||||||||
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