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Parent Participation (parent + participation)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences44%
Humanities and Social Sciences44%

Selected Abstracts

Healthcare Providers' Attitudes Toward Parent Participation in the Care of the Hospitalized Child

JOURNAL FOR SPECIALISTS IN PEDIATRIC NURSING, Issue 3 2003
Susan Daneman BSN
ISSUES AND PURPOSE To examine healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of their hospitalized child. DESIGN AND METHODS In this descriptive, comparative study, 504 pediatric healthcare providers were surveyed to measure attitudes toward parent participation. RESULTS Results from 256 respondents indicated support for parent participation, but there was substantially less support for parental activities usually carried out by healthcare providers and those involving complex patient care tasks. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Although pediatric healthcare providers support parent participation, they tend to draw the line on what they believe are suitable parent activities. Newly developed pain standards and cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines incorporating parent participation have important implications for expanding the boundaries of parental involvement. [source]

Reexamining the Promise of Parent Participation in Special Education: An Analysis of Cultural and Social Capital

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2010
Audrey A. TrainorArticle first published online: 15 SEP 2010
Highly regulated parent participation in special education requires both parents and teachers to use cultural and social capital relative to education legislation, disability, and parenting. Examined through a Bourdieuian analytical lens, data from focus groups and individual interviews with families provide examples of the salience of disability in the acquisition and use of cultural and social capital in educational contexts, serving to both reify dominance and support individual agency.,[special education, Bourdieu, cultural capital, disability] [source]

Parent participation in paediatric rehabilitation treatment centres in the Netherlands: a parents' viewpoint

CHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2007
R. C. Siebes
Abstract Aim, The importance of family-centred care and services has been increasingly emphasized in paediatric rehabilitation. One aspect of family-centred care is parent involvement in their child's treatment. The aims of this study were (1) to describe how, and to what extent parents are involved in the paediatric rehabilitation treatment process in the Netherlands; (2) to determine the level of parents' satisfaction about the services they and their child have received; and (3) to describe what ideas parents have to enhance their involvement in the treatment process. Methods, A total of 679 parents of children aged 1,20 years who participated in our longitudinal study on family centred care in the Netherlands. The children had various diagnoses and were treated in nine out of 23 Dutch paediatric rehabilitation centres. A random sample of 75 parents was interviewed within 4 weeks after completion of the Measure of Processes of Care and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire. A Quality of Care cycle with six stages was used to structure the evaluation. Results, The data showed that parents are involved in all stages of their child's rehabilitation process in various ways. The average level of parent satisfaction about the services received was high. According to the interviewed parents, the communication between professionals and parents, parents' involvement in goal setting, and parents' involvement in treatment could be improved upon. Conclusion, Parents are to a large extent involved in all stages of the treatment process in Dutch paediatric rehabilitation settings. Although parents valued the services received, they suggested various ways to enhance parent participation. [source]

Forming partnerships with parents from a community development perspective: lessons learnt from Sure Start

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 6 2009
Virginia MacNeill FCIH PhDArticle first published online: 22 JUL 200
Abstract The aim of this study is to explore some of the issues of service user participation in the planning and delivery of public services from a community development perspective. It draws on an action research evaluation study of a local Sure Start programme, which was introduced into an area without a tradition of community involvement in decisions about local services. The study describes and analyses the challenges of parent participation in the organisation and delivery of the Sure Start programme at an operational and strategic level, using findings from semi-structured interviews, observations and critical conversations with Sure Start parents, staff and members of the Sure Start management board. The main substantive findings are that there was a lack of shared understanding of the nature of parent participation in all its facets and this undermined the efforts of parents and staff in the development of the programme. These findings also raise broader issues about participation, the place of parental partnerships with professionals and ways in which collaboration between the two may be interpreted and evolve. [source]

Healthcare Providers' Attitudes Toward Parent Participation in the Care of the Hospitalized Child

JOURNAL FOR SPECIALISTS IN PEDIATRIC NURSING, Issue 3 2003
Susan Daneman BSN
ISSUES AND PURPOSE To examine healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of their hospitalized child. DESIGN AND METHODS In this descriptive, comparative study, 504 pediatric healthcare providers were surveyed to measure attitudes toward parent participation. RESULTS Results from 256 respondents indicated support for parent participation, but there was substantially less support for parental activities usually carried out by healthcare providers and those involving complex patient care tasks. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Although pediatric healthcare providers support parent participation, they tend to draw the line on what they believe are suitable parent activities. Newly developed pain standards and cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines incorporating parent participation have important implications for expanding the boundaries of parental involvement. [source]

Reexamining the Promise of Parent Participation in Special Education: An Analysis of Cultural and Social Capital

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2010
Audrey A. TrainorArticle first published online: 15 SEP 2010
Highly regulated parent participation in special education requires both parents and teachers to use cultural and social capital relative to education legislation, disability, and parenting. Examined through a Bourdieuian analytical lens, data from focus groups and individual interviews with families provide examples of the salience of disability in the acquisition and use of cultural and social capital in educational contexts, serving to both reify dominance and support individual agency.,[special education, Bourdieu, cultural capital, disability] [source]

Parent participation in paediatric rehabilitation treatment centres in the Netherlands: a parents' viewpoint

CHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2007
R. C. Siebes
Abstract Aim, The importance of family-centred care and services has been increasingly emphasized in paediatric rehabilitation. One aspect of family-centred care is parent involvement in their child's treatment. The aims of this study were (1) to describe how, and to what extent parents are involved in the paediatric rehabilitation treatment process in the Netherlands; (2) to determine the level of parents' satisfaction about the services they and their child have received; and (3) to describe what ideas parents have to enhance their involvement in the treatment process. Methods, A total of 679 parents of children aged 1,20 years who participated in our longitudinal study on family centred care in the Netherlands. The children had various diagnoses and were treated in nine out of 23 Dutch paediatric rehabilitation centres. A random sample of 75 parents was interviewed within 4 weeks after completion of the Measure of Processes of Care and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire. A Quality of Care cycle with six stages was used to structure the evaluation. Results, The data showed that parents are involved in all stages of their child's rehabilitation process in various ways. The average level of parent satisfaction about the services received was high. According to the interviewed parents, the communication between professionals and parents, parents' involvement in goal setting, and parents' involvement in treatment could be improved upon. Conclusion, Parents are to a large extent involved in all stages of the treatment process in Dutch paediatric rehabilitation settings. Although parents valued the services received, they suggested various ways to enhance parent participation. [source]

Inclusion , the heart of the matter: trainee teachers' perceptions of a parent's journey

BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2006
Chris Forlin
The importance of parental choice, and parents' participation in educational processes, continue to be highlighted in strategies, acts and policies around the world. Partnership with parents is given an even higher profile in relation to educational opportunities for children with special needs. Yet many trainee teachers have only limited understandings of the impact on family life of a child with special needs; are uncertain how best to work with parents; and are not confident about the choices that parents may wish to make for their children. In this article, Chris Forlin, Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Treena Hopewell, MEd student at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, report the responses of a group of fourth year trainee teachers after listening to the story of a mother of a child with high support needs. Their discussion focuses on three themes emerging from the reflective comments written by the trainee teachers after the session: empathy, understanding and personal growth. Chris Forlin and Treena Hopewell review the value of this approach as a means of establishing in trainee teachers a greater desire to work more collaboratively with parents and family members. They also provide excerpts from the mother's story to enable readers to experience the passionate spirit of the storyteller; to further appreciate the needs of parents; and to understand their desire for greater participation in decisions regarding their children. [source]