Prof Caroline Hollins-Martin
| Post Nominals | PhD MPhil BSc RGN RM Cert Ed |
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| Biography | Caroline J Hollins Martin is a Professor of Maternal Health and has a background that has encompassed a career in women’s reproductive health that spans 30 years; the first 11 of these were spent as a clinical midwife in Ayrshire (Scotland) and 24 teaching and researching women’s reproductive health within universities. Caroline is an NMC Registered Midwife and Lecturer/Practice Educator. She is also a graduate and post graduate in psychology and a Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS). Caroline holds copywrite for the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R), which is available free of charge at: https://www.bss-r.co.uk OR by emailing c.hollinsmartin@napier.ac.uk The BSS-R is recommended as the key global clinical measure of birth satisfaction by the ICHOM Standard Set for Pregnancy And Childbirth: www.ichom.org/medical-conditions/pregnancy-and-childbirth/ If you would like to work with Caroline's team on a language specific translation and validation of a country specific BSS-R, please contact her. |
| Research Interests | Caroline J Hollins Martin's research interests lie in psychology that relates to women’s reproductive health, with aspects relating to women's experiences of childbirth, bereavement care, compassion, PTSD and providing choice and control to childbearing women. More recently focus has shifted to developing useful tools for maternal health practitioners to use in clinical practice. For example, the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R), which has been designed to assess mothers’ perceptions of their birth experience (please email if you would like to use). Caroline is also interested in Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) to help build midwives resilience to cope with trauma in clinical practice. |
| Teaching and Learning | Caroline J Hollins Martin has over the years made a significant contribution to teaching across many midwifery and allied health professional student programmes. This has involved participating in design, development, validation, and delivery of programs undergraduate, Master’s, and post graduate level learners, with provision responding to the strategic needs of the local NHS Trusts and underpinned with an evidence-base. |
| ResearcherID | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Caroline_Hollins_Martin |
| Scopus Author ID | 8665735000 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Psychology of maternal health: *birth satisfaction *bereavement *trauma related to childbirth *midwifery *wellbeing *mental health *compassion |