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'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.
The social construction of resilience among problem youth in out-of-home placement: a study of health-enhancing deviance
- Author:
- UNGAR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), June 2001, pp.137-154.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This American study presents case studies of 43 young people with experience in child welfare, mental health, and correctional settings to examine how resilience is socially constructed by participants and their caregivers. The deviant behaviours of these youth are explained as ways they successfully cope with the risk factors they face. Placement in institutions and community-based residential programmes offers high-risk youth 'forums' in which to create continuities or discontinuities in their identity stories. Collaboration between service partners can have a negative of positive impact on the development of healthy identities in high-risk youth depending on whether care providers participate in the construction of problem-saturated or health-enhancing identities.
Removing children from the care of adults with diagnosed mental illnesses - a clash of human rights?
- Author:
- PRIOR Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 6(2), 2003, pp.179-190.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Health and social services providers throughout Europe are increasingly aware of the possibility of litigation from service users arising from the application of a human rights perspective to public service provision. Presents an analysis of ECHR cases related to breaches of human rights that occurred when children were taken into care from families in which one or both parents had a diagnosed mental illness. The issues raised by these cases include the following: how to ensure that the right to family life is protected for adults with mental illnesses: how to ensure access and opportunities for parents to continue bonding with children in care; and how to avoid damaging children while giving time for a proper assessment of the care situation.
Whose baby is it anyway? Developing a joined-up service involving child and adult teams working in a mental health trust
- Authors:
- BRITTEN Clive, CARDWELL Amynta
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 26(4), Winter 2002, pp.76-83.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes how clinicians from a London-based child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS), in partnership with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), developed a joined-up service with colleagues in the local adult mental health teams in a London Hospital. The service aimed to raise awareness of the potential risk factors posed to children being cared for by an adult with a mental health problem. The article includes a number of short case examples.
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: learning from inter-country comparisons
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen, KATZ Ilan, MESIE Jeffrey, TROWELL Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 262p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Children with mentally ill parents have complex needs, and a wide range of mental health and social services may be involved. This can lead to problems of liaison and co-operation between different agencies and different disciplines. The study looks at different approaches to supporting families in ten European countries and one state in Australia. Common problems and effective responses are identified and used to build a European model of good practice, which takes into account the nature of the difficulties facing families and the strengths and weaknesses of national systems. The model is used as a basis for analysing the particular problems of the English system.