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A trouble shared is a happy budget
- Author:
- APPLETON Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 22.6.89, 1989, pp.760-761.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on initiatives in which clinical psychologists and child psychiatrists share resources with health visitors to identify and treat child mental health problems in the community.
Substance misuse, mental health problems and recurrent child maltreatment
- Authors:
- LASLETT Anne-Marie L., ROOM Robin, DIETZE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Dual Diagnosis, 7(1), 2014, pp.15-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the diagnosis of both carers’ mental health problems and substance misuse increase the likelihood of recurrent child maltreatment over and above the individual effects of these factors. Design/methodology/approach: Retrospective secondary data analysis of 29,455 children where child maltreatment was confirmed in the Victorian child protection system between 2001 and 2005. Recorded mental health, alcohol misuse and other drug misuse variables were entered into multivariate logistic regression models predicting repeated child maltreatment. Interactions and a range of other child, carer and socio-economic factors were included in these models. Findings – Carer alcohol misuse, other drug misuse and mental ill health all independently predicted recurrent child maltreatment. The presence of both other drug misuse and mental ill health increased the likelihood that recurrent child abuse was recorded over the likelihood that mental health alone predicted recurrent child maltreatment, and while alcohol misuse had an effect when there was no mental health condition recorded it did not have an additional effect when there was evidence of mental health problems. Research limitations/implications: Children in families where there is both mental health problems and other drug use problems are at greater risk of repeated maltreatment than where there is evidence of mental health problems or other drug use alone. Where there was evidence of carer mental health problems, alcohol misuse did not add to this likelihood. However, the effect of mental health and other drug use was similar in size to the effect of alcohol misuse alone. Originality/value: These findings add to understandings of the effects of co-occurring mental health problems and substance misuse on recurrent child maltreatment and differentiate between cases that involve alcohol and other drug misuse. (Publisher abstract)
You don't know what it's like
- Author:
- CASTILLO Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(2), October 2000, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Personality disorder has become synonymous with violence and inhumanity. But the experiences of people with the diagnosis tell a very different story.
Emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children in the child welfare system: points of preventive intervention
- Author:
- DORE Martha M.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 21(1), January 1999, pp.7-29.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Research is demonstrating more clearly than ever before the association between abuse and neglect and serious emotional and behavioural problems in children. Studies suggest that from 30% to 60% of children currently entering the children welfare system, in the USA, demonstrate some form of psychiatric disorder. At the same time there is evidence that the child welfare system is failing to address the needs of these children in care. This article proposes three points of preventive intervention for a child welfare system response and describes elements of each.
Double jeopardy: the link between child abuse and maternal depression in child and family social work
- Author:
- SHEPPARD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 2(2), May 1997, pp.91-107.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article shows a significant relationship between maternal depression and child abuse. It explores this relationship by distinguishing three groups: families where no abuse had occurred, families where abuse had occurred but where the mother was not depressed and families where both child abuse and maternal depression were present. The depressed-abuse group were found to be considerably worse off than both the other groups for a range of measures, including indices of deprivation and range and severity of social problems. The depressed-abuse group were also more chronic users of services and consumed far more services than the other two groups. The findings indicate that working with the mother's depression and the social conditions that provide its backdrop, are a major aspect of social work practice.
A network of psychiatric and social services for children: an account from Greece
- Authors:
- ABATZOGLOU G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 7(3), 2000, pp.50-52.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Describes a Child and Adolescent Unit at a hospital in Greece that has a long tradition of cooperation with social services and child care institutions, based on the willingness to transform a formal routine of assessment into a long term psycho-social therapeutic project. The authors have created a framework of cooperation that can function at the same time as a tool for assessment and therapy, and as a training and research programme.
Growing up in Britain: ensuring a healthy future for our children; a study of 0-5 year olds
- Author:
- BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Board of Science and Education
- Publisher:
- BMJ Books
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 222p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report covering child health from conception to age five. Focuses on the impact of social and economic inequality on child health. Includes chapters on: inequalities in child health; childhood nutrition; abuse and injury; disability; mental health and behavioural problems; and origins of adult disease. Closes with a chapter drawing conclusions and presenting a broad range of recommendations for actions that need to be taken if the UK is to provide an environment in which children are nurtured and their health in their early years is recognised as key to the future well being of the country.
Study of Working Together 'Part 8' reports: fatal child abuse and parental psychiatric disorders
- Author:
- REJTMAN Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 134, March 1997, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Discusses the results of a study which examines the association between mental illness in the parent and fatal child abuse by analysing 100 Area Child Protection Committee Case Reviews conducted under Part 8 of "Working Together". The report demonstrates the present lack of communication and understanding between and within child protection and mental health agencies.
The mental health problems of mothers experiencing the child protection system: identifying needs and appropriate responses
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, PENHALE Bridget
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 8(1), January 1999, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents the findings of a small pilot study which examined the needs of mothers with severe mental health problems whose children were involved in the child protection system. The use of the diagnosis of 'personality disorder' in relation to this group of women is discussed and the finding that all these women had experience of domestic violence is considered in the context of other research findings. The article seeks to identify the differing approaches to maternal mental health problems which appear to be developing out of different groups of research studies and argues that practitioners need to be explicit in identifying their perspectives on the associated issues of maternal mental health problems and child protection.
Public issues, private pain: poverty, social work and social policy
- Editors:
- BECKER Saul, MacPHERSON Stewart
- Publisher:
- Social Services Insight
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 380p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London