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Its alright mummy
- Author:
- LEASON Katie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.10.04, 2004, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Up to 50 percent of all adult users of mental health services are parents. Looks at the consequences for children who have to care for a mentally ill mother or father, and the difficulties children may have in getting their needs recognised. Also reports on the Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network, launched by SCIE, which aims to improve joint working between adult mental health and child care services.
Mental health consumer and carers participation in professional education: 'Getting there together' for children of parents with mental illness and their families
- Authors:
- COWLING Vicki, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 59(4), December 2006, pp.406-421.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
‘Getting There Together’ is a professional education seminar developed as a collaborative project by professionals, mental health consumers and carers aimed at service providers who work with children of parents with mental illness and their families. The need for such professional education concerning this group is well recognised and the project reported herein was initiated by a reference group of professionals, consumers and carers focusing on children of parents with mental illness in the Eastern region of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). The project began and continued as a collaborative effort during development and implementation, which ensured the experience, point of view and voice of consumers and carers was central to the material prepared, and at the time of seminar presentations. Seminar participants were from the family welfare, child care and supported housing sectors. Seminar participants found the first person accounts of consumers and carers the most helpful aspects of the seminars because they gave new insights into the experiences of carers and of mental health consumers as parents, as well as an understanding of ‘… the whole family, and how the child fits into the picture’.
Parents of mentally ill adult children living at home
- Authors:
- SCHWARTZ Chaya, GIDRON Ronit
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 27(2), May 2002, pp.145-154.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study explores the positive potentials of caregiving experiences by parents caring for an adult child with a mental illness at home. One parent from each of 93 households completed a self-administered questionnaire. The children being cared for were aged 18 or over. All the parents reported receiving help and support from their child, but perceived the satisfaction gained from fulfilling their parental duties and from learning about themselves as more important.
Parental mental health as a child protection issue: data from the NSPCC National Child Protection Helpline
- Authors:
- LEWIS Vanessa, CREIGHTON Susan J.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 8(3), May 1999, pp.152-163.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes how analysis of a sample of child abuse referrals to the NSPCC Child Protection Helpline showed that in 10 per cent a parent or carer was reported as having a mental health problem. Mothers were the parent affected in the majority of these cases. The mental health sample differed from other referrals in an increased concern about emotional abuse and less about sexual abuse; greater levels of violence and discord between parents; and more agency involvement. Issues of potential labelling and therapeutic needs are discussed.
Suffer the little children
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.8.95, 1995, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A new project for young carers in Bradford found that many were looking after mentally ill parents.
Nobody cared about me: unmet need among children in West Lambeth whose parents are mentally ill
- Authors:
- IDDAMALGODA Keith, NAISH Joan
- Publisher:
- West Lambeth Community Health Trust
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey looking at the number of children involved and the effects of parental mental health problems on children. Goes on to examine service provision, including adult mental health services, and child health, neighbourhood, and child psychiatry services.
Influence of caregiver substance dependence and serious mental illness on children’s mental health: moderating effects of social support
- Authors:
- MILLER Keva M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 31(5), 2014, pp.435-454.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study examined the relationships between caregiver alcohol dependence, drug dependence, and serious mental illness and internalising and externalising behaviours and whether these risks were moderated by social support. The study included 3,225 children ages 2–17 and their current caregivers, who participated in the second cohort of the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Regression analysis indicated that caregiver alcohol dependence, serious mental illness, and social support were significantly associated with internalising behaviours and caregiver serious mental illness and social support were significantly associated with externalising behaviours. Results indicated that social support moderated the associations between caregiver alcohol dependence and internalising and caregiver drug dependence and externalising behaviours. Implications for practice and future research are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Campaign: cut out and collect. Into the light
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.10.95, 1995, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles the work of Camden Young Carers Project and briefly refers to the Children Act and young carers.
The ones who got away
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.9.95, 1995, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a survey of psychiatric patients in Lambeth, which has found that children's services and mental health care do not provide for young people caring for mentally ill parents.
Looking out for the mother's help
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.6.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There are children country wide who live in constant anxiety because they are looking after parents who have severe mental distress. They feel that there is no one that they can go to for support and they experience social isolation. Discovers that social services departments are not addressing these needs or the mother's child care requirements.