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Mental health in Northern Ireland: overview, strategies, policies, care pathways, CAMHS and barriers to accessing services
- Authors:
- BETTS Jennifer, THOMPSON Janice
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Assembly. Research and Information Service
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This paper provides an overview of mental health and illness in Northern Ireland, including the issues of self-harm and suicide. It highlights the relevant overarching strategies and policies and those specific to mental health, mental illness and suicide for Northern Ireland; describes the care pathway for treating mental health problems, including an overview of the stepped care model and recovery model; looks at provision of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS); and discusses evaluations of mental health service provision in NI in terms of accessing services and barriers to access. It also highlights relevant initiatives in England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland relating to accessing mental health services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Young children returning home from care: the birth parents' perspective
- Authors:
- MALET Montserrat Fargas, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 15(1), February 2010, pp.77-86.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
UK studies suggest that although the majority of children who enter care return home, a significant number of these children eventually re-enter the care system. While a wide range of literature exists on the experiences of children in foster care or adoption, much less is known about children after they return home to their birth parents. This paper, focusing on the perspectives of a small sample of birth parents of young children who returned home from care, draws on findings from the Northern Ireland Care Pathways and Outcomes Study that has been following a population of 374 children who were under 5 years and in care in Northern Ireland on the 31st of March 2000. As part of this study, interviews were conducted with the foster parents of 55 children, the adoptive parents of 51 children and the birth parents of 9 children who had returned home from care. The paper investigates the birth parents views on how they coped while their child was in care, how they coped after the child had returned home and how their child fared at home. Results revealed that these parents, and their children, were experiencing multiple difficulties and struggled to cope after the children had returned home – raising concerns about the health and welfare of these children.