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Project helps young families break mental health cycle
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Young People Now, 21.2.12, 2012, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Business Publications Ltd
Briefly describes the project Little Minds Matter, which operates in Portsmouth to reduce the risk of children developing mental health problems by working with new and expectant mothers who have mental health needs. The project, funded from Portsmouth City Council's children's centre budget and supported by Solent NHS trust, uses specialist infant mental health professionals who work intensively with parents and babies to reduce the risk of health problems. The ultimate aim is also to get families to reintroduce families to children's centres and other services.
'My mother threatens my sister with a knife'
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.11.09, 2009, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Practitioners and experts comment on a case in which a young man has alerted the NSPCC to his mother's paranoid and potentially dangerous behaviour.
Keeping it in the family
- Authors:
- LOVE Steve, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.10.01, 2001, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A multidisciplinary panel considers the case of a young child whose mother is unable to care for her when she is in hospital.
Maternal and paternal filicide: case studies from the Australian Homicide Project
- Authors:
- ERIKSSON Li, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 25(1), 2016, pp.17-30.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Data drawn from the Australian Homicide Project were used to examine whether and how maternal and paternal filicide perpetrators differ in terms of motivations for filicide and childhood and adulthood adversities. In addition, key differences between filicide and non-filicide perpetrators were examined. Data were collected across a number of states and territories in Australia between 2010 and 2013 through interviews with 231 men and women convicted of murder or manslaughter. Of these participants, 14 had perpetrated filicide. Detailed information on the developmental background of the perpetrators, as well as motives and situational contexts of the homicide incidents, was gathered through the interviews. Findings from the current study reveal some important gender differences among filicide perpetrators. For example, filicidal fathers are more likely to perpetrate accidental filicide, and to report unemployment, alcohol and drug problems and previous engagement in child abuse, while filicidal mothers are more likely to perpetrate altruistic or neglectful filicide, and to report mental health problems. In addition, male filicide perpetrators report a greater number of adversities compared to male non-filicide perpetrators, while female filicide perpetrators display fewer adversities compared to their non-filicide counterparts. (Publisher abstract)
More than mental health
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.1.03, 2003, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at a case study of a teenage mother with a history of self-harming and low self-esteem.
Living in fear of a client
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.2.02, 2002, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A young women with mental health problems is sent to prison for burglary. Her baby, who has been put up for adoption, is brought to her once a month but a decision is taken to break off contact with her social worker. As a result the women begins to issue threats against the worker. Reports on a case study.
Daughters of madness: growing up and older with a mentally ill mother
- Author:
- NATHIEL Susan
- Publisher:
- Praeger
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
This book is aimed at families where parents have mental health problems although the stories detailed in it are mostly about daughters with mothers suffering from mental health problems. The author presents 8 chapters which define a mother’s role in shaping children’s self development and chart the effects of a mother’s emotional absence, unpredictability or frightening behaviour can have on their daughters’ childhood sense of self and views of the world through each major developmental period of early and middle childhood, adolescence and young into full adulthood. Chapter 2 on early childhood pays close attention to a child’s pre-verbal development and the degree to which mental illness of a parent can affect this. Analysis of case studies from the United States and the United Kingdom is balanced, with mental illness defined as a family disease and complimented by guidance from the author for change. The final two chapters discuss the author’s afterthoughts on some of the case studies and give recommendations for future policies and practices by considering what do we need to learn? An appendix gives additional biographical detail on the women interviewed with names, of loved ones, changed for privacy. Students of psychology, medicine and law may find use for this book, according to one reviewer.