Tilghman Joan, Lovette Avi
Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
J Perinat Educ. 2008 Spring;17(2):50-3. doi: 10.1624/105812408X298390.
Certified childbirth educators have the ideal preparation for prenatal education, but they likely need to enhance their approach for adolescent clients. First, young mothers in the United States are presenting with increasingly diverse backgrounds, requiring cultural awareness of childbirth educators and others who wish to effectively meet their prenatal health care and education needs. In addition, adolescents who become pregnant are an extremely vulnerable group and, therefore, require special concern. Pregnant adolescents are unique from other groups of pregnant women in all major aspects of assessment: their social environment; their personal, social, and psychological development; and their physical response. Therefore, prenatal care and childbirth education designed for the typical population are unlikely to best serve the pregnant adolescent.
认证分娩教育工作者对产前教育有理想的准备，但他们可能需要改进针对青少年客户的方法。首先，美国的年轻母亲背景日益多样化，这就要求分娩教育工作者以及其他希望有效满足她们产前保健和教育需求的人具备文化意识。此外，怀孕的青少年是一个极其脆弱的群体，因此需要特别关注。怀孕青少年在评估的所有主要方面都与其他孕妇群体不同：她们的社会环境；她们的个人、社会和心理发展；以及她们的身体反应。因此，为普通人群设计的产前护理和分娩教育不太可能最适合怀孕的青少年。
