A narrative analysis of breastfeeding counselling

dc.contributor.author	Leja, Gabrielle Mary	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-14T21:03:15Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-14T21:03:15Z
dc.date.copyright	2001	en_US
dc.date.issued	2001
dc.degree.department	Faculty of Human and Social Development
dc.degree.department	School of Social Work
dc.degree.level	Master of Nursing M.N.	en
dc.description.abstract	In, this study, I examined what the experience of receiving breastfeeding counselling is like from the mother's viewpoint. I held conversational interviews with four mothers who had recently breastfed1to elicit their stories of receiving breastfeeding counselling from a healthcare professional. Narratives were evoked from the conversations and analysed according to three contexts of interpretation: Self Understanding, or the participant' s own viewpoint; Critical Commonsense Understanding, in which the context of counsel received was compared to current breastfeeding literature; and a Theoretical Understanding, in which three narratives corresponded with popular socio-cultural narratives, biomedical, and lay accounts. A counter-narrative resulted when one participant's experiences did not fit with these three prevalent accounts, although the participant modified her final paragraphs to include the prevalent lay accounts about breastfeeding.
dc.format.extent	146 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18625
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	A narrative analysis of breastfeeding counselling	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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