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Training for primary health care practitioners
- Authors:
- LAYIOU-LIGNOS, Effie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), February 2005, pp.41-53.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes in detail the training course for primary health care practitioners (PHCPs) designed for the needs of the European Early Promotion Project (EEPP), aiming to promote parent-infant interaction and ensure that resources are targeted to families in need of more support. The course is based on the principles of adult learning models and uses a partnership approach to the helping process, combining the Parent Adviser model, promotional interviewing from the EU/WHO project and the theory and skills of assessing and supporting early parent-infant interaction and the psychosocial development of infants. It provides a step-by-step exposition of how to train PHCPs, stressing the importance of the helper-parent relationship and ways of facilitating parent-child communication. It gives an analytic description of the course content and training methods. It describes in detail the supervision which followed the training and accompanied the PHCPs throughout the implementation phase, elaborating on the supervisory relationship and the alliance necessary for the supervision to be effective. It concludes with some remarks about training and supervision and their role in the project. Part of a special issue on the EEPP.
The effects of the European Early Promotion Project training on primary health care professionals
- Authors:
- PAPADOPOLOU Kalliroi, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), February 2005, pp.54-62.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores the effects of the European Early Promotion Project (EEPP) training on primary health care professionals with regard to knowledge, self-efficacy and ability to identify need in families, and to their satisfaction with training received. A quasi-experimental group comparison design was developed in which an intervention and a comparison group were assessed twice: the intervention group before and after the special EEPP training and the comparison at the same time but without the training. Overall results show a tendency for the intervention group to improve in knowledge and perceived self-efficacy, and a significant improvement in their accuracy of need identification in families, compared with the comparison group. These results were more prominent in Greece, Serbia and the UK than in Finland and Cyprus, whereas training satisfaction was high in all sites. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for early intervention as well as for training primary health care professionals to conduct preventative and promotional work with families. Part of a special issue on the EEPP.