Rummaging in the tool bag: how we can borrow from other disciplines, and enhance our care.
As infant feeding specialists, we should be open to discovering new tools that renew our practice. Historically, we’ve incorporated elements from elsewhere, e.g. Active Listening (Rogers and Farson, 1957), borrowed from psychology and conflict resolution.
Changes to the UK support landscape, mean that parents may not access traditional breastfeeding peer support, and instead see health staff. A diversity of background, can mean staff bring additional skills that then complement those acquired under the UNICEF Baby Friendly standard.
For specialist professionals, such as IBCLCs, some of these tools can also complement practice, and can be used to great effect.
This presentation proposes to look at some elements we can borrow that enhance our clinical practice. We will review aspects of Active Listening, and then move on to examine elements in the Signs of Safety model and Solihull Approach. These are just two examples of widely practiced approaches in the UK, and there are many other fields to be borrowed from.
Learning Objectives:
Objective 1: Describe new approaches to clinical practice;
Objective 2. Outline a brief review of Active Listening and its origins, an introductory overview to Signs of Safety and the Solihull Approach;
Objective 3. Discuss specific examples of elements that can be deployed in breastfeeding support practice from these approaches; and
Objective 4. Describe other (evidenced) science/health fields that can be helpful to us as lactation professionals.
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