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Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma
  This article combines work from two separate PhD research studies by Dr Jenny Patterson and Dr Diane Ménage.
These studies explored, from different perspectives, how the nature of interactions between midwives and women may
contribute to, or prevent, trauma. The findings are presented and discussed. Jenny and Diane argue that their joint
findings add new insights and show that the compassion shown during interactions between midwives and women may
be key to preventing experiences becoming traumatic for women and midwives. They uphold compassion as a vital
human connection in midwifery care and the workplace culture as key to sustaining it.

  • Date:

    01 September 2020

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    All4holdings ltd

  • DOI:

    10.55975/iaod9019

  • ISSN:

    1461-3123

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

Citation

Patterson, J., & Ménage, D. (2020). Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma. Practising Midwife, 23(08), https://doi.org/10.55975/iaod9019

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