Reflection On Babies In Mind

The massive open online course I have decided to partake in was called “Babies In Mind”. This course was aimed to increase knowledge about how a parent’s mind can impact the mental development of an infant. Throughout the weeks the class was conducted in unison by two individuals: Professor Jane Barlow who is a Professor of Public Health in the Early Years and a Director of Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit, and Dawn Cannon who is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School and a Honorary Secretary of AIMH. Both instructors have had experience in working with the development of parental support and parental mental health. Some main themes and concepts included: the environmental impact on development, experience-dependent development, …show more content…
After participating in the online course I believe I will be able to integrate the knowledge in an environment I hope to work in. Because this class was focused on new families, infants, and parents, I can use this new information when applying it to a community or postpartum setting. Having this information can assist me in educating families and parents about important information in a way that will be easy for them to understand. I can provide them with information about the importance of keeping their mental status healthy and help them understand that their health is important too. Additionally, I can also direct them to these kinds of courses or platforms so that they feel enabled and encouraged to be part of their own learning experienced. In a higher level of intervention, I can bring this kind of material to advocate for parents and help in the creation of interventions, which would involve counseling, education and bonding activities similar to those presented in the online course. Within environments where families are not involved, I can still integrate this knowledge because it will help me understand the dynamics of their family and their support systems. Ultimately, this course and the information provided could help me with my profession by allowing me to take into consideration how their home or family life has impacted their health. As for the patient’s own benefit, I can introduce these education programs to them, so that they may have access to whatever information they need. For example, if I were to have a patient who was unsure why they need the flu shot I can present them with online courses as an option for information. By having other professionals engage in this topic as well as other non-professionals learning along side them, they may understand the subject more which will give them extra information to better support their decisions. In