<p> Having an infant admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be stressful and overwhelming for parents and families. Parents have developed anxiety and depression disorders, as a result of their experience from having their infant in the NICU. The stress and anxiety can also affect the parent-child attachment, as well as putting the infant/child at risk of abuse and neglect. A licensed clinical social worker will facilitate a support group using the strength based perspective to empower individuals and families. The support group goals are: to reduce the amount of stress that parents and/or caregivers encounter, as a result of their infant being in the NICU, to empower parents and/or caregivers to advocate for their infant who has been in the NICU, and to increase the parents and/or caregivers' ability to appropriately respond to the infant's needs. In selecting, Health Trust, as a funder, it values enhancing the well-being of individual and families in Santa Clara County. An actual submission to the funder was not a requirement of this project.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:1590144 |
| Date | 09 July 2015 |
| Creators | Perilla, Jessenia Y. |
| Publisher | California State University, Long Beach |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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