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Children of adults with severe mental illness: mental health, help seeking and service use
- Authors:
- COWLING Vicki, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 28(2), February 2004, pp.43-46.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Reports on an Australian study to determine the prevalence of childhood mental health problems in children of parents registered with an area mental health service, and to study the parents’ help-seeking and service use for their children. Parents were recruited through their case managers, and asked to complete the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Service Utilisation Questionnaire and the Help-seeking Questionnaire. Results found a quarter of the children were in the clinical range of the SDQ total scores, with high sub-scale scores. However, 63 percent of the parents reported reluctance to seek help, and 19 percent reported not using services. Concludes that children of parents with mental illness are at higher risk of childhood psychiatric disorders. Assessment of the child at the time of referral of the parent is an opportunity for problem identification, parental education, and early intervention.
Children of parents with mental illness
- Editor:
- COWLING Vicki
- Publisher:
- Australian Council for Educational Research
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 230p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Melbourne, VIC
A study into the impact on children when their parents have mental illness. The children have to deal with the symptoms and with parental behaviour and professional interventions that they do not understand, and the side effects on them can be profound. It combines theoretical basis with first-hand experiences of parents and adult children. It covers a range of psychological disorders, and, through case studies, analyses the ability of such a parent still to function as a care-giver. Programs to help those affected by mental illness are evaluated by users as well as providers.
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’.