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Walk the talk: Leader behavior in parental education groups

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  • Anita Berlin
  • Michael Rosander
  • Karin Forslund Frykedal
  • Mia Barimani

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Expectant and new parents are offered parental education groups as a way to support their transition to parenthood. Group leadership in these groups has been found to be challenging. Using a qualitative and summative design, the aim of the present study was to investigate how health professionals describe their role in parental education groups compared to their actual behavior. Thirteen health professional leaders in antenatal and child health services were interviewed. These descriptions were compared with the leaders’ actual behavior in video and audio‐recordings of 16 different group sessions. The results revealed that regardless of how the leaders described their role, they acted as experts and left little time to parents for discussions and active participation. In particular, leaders who described themselves as discussion leaders did not “walk the talk”; that is, they did not do what they said they do when leading groups. That could be explained by lack of professional awareness, group leadership, and pedagogical skills. In order to provide high‐quality parental support, leaders need training in group leadership and pedagogy combined with supervision and support on a regular basis.

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  • Anita Berlin & Michael Rosander & Karin Forslund Frykedal & Mia Barimani, 2018. "Walk the talk: Leader behavior in parental education groups," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 20(2), pages 173-180, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:nuhsci:v:20:y:2018:i:2:p:173-180
    DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12399
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    1. Karin Forslund Frykedal & Michael Rosander, 2015. "The role as moderator and mediator in parent education groups – a leadership and teaching approach model from a parent perspective," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 24(13-14), pages 1966-1974, July.
    2. Åsa Lefèvre & Pia Lundqvist & Eva Drevenhorn & Inger Hallström, 2017. "Managing parental groups: personal impact of a group leadership course for child healthcare nurses," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 26(3-4), pages 466-476, February.
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    1. Anita Berlin & Michael Rosander & Karin F. Frykedal & Lena Törnkvist & Mia Barimani, 2020. "Fatherhood group sessions: A descriptive and summative qualitative study," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 22(4), pages 1094-1102, December.

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