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The pain and the possibility: the family recovery process
- Author:
- SPANIOL LeRoy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 46(1), February 2010, pp.482-485.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The onset of a mental illness is a traumatic experience for all the members of a family. While the mental illness in their family member may be life long, family members can experience their own recovery from the trauma, just as their family member with a mental illness can experience recovery. This article will describe the family recovery process.
Think child, think parent, think family: a briefing for senior managers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This ‘At a glance’ summary is aimed at senior managers and presents key recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare'. The summary outlines the context, including lack of coordination of services, challenges for staff, financial restrictions and the growing change in policy direction towards supporting families and improving child health and wellbeing. It then makes key recommendations to improve services including taking a strategic multi-agency approach, leading cultural change, involving people who use services, embedding the whole-family approaches into quality systems, improving staff skills and knowledge and ensuring that information is gathered and made accessible. Experience at a number of pilot sites in local authorities in England and Northern Ireland highlights the importance of senior management involvement to the success of this approach.
Living with teenage violence
- Author:
- BROWN Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 21(10), December 2010, pp.11-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Incidents of domestic violence where adolescents are the aggressors and parents are the victims are increasing. This article looks at the increase in adolescent violence and what help is available for parents being physically abused by their child. It covers available figures on this type of domestic violence in the UK, the importance of early intervention, diagnosing the aggressive child, and causes of aggressive behaviour. It discusses sources of help, including the voluntary sector, parenting programmes provided by local authorities, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines for effective treatment of conduct disorder, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and 2 government initiatives (family interventions and multisystemic therapy). The article notes that many agencies offer services but that there is no clear path to accessing these and that services may vary according to location. The author argues that it is time to implement a countrywide strategic plan for a programme to deal with conduct problems and to ensure that personnel are trained to deliver it effectively. A case example setting out one mother's story about the aggressive behaviour of her child is appended to the article.
Caring for children of parents with mental health problems - a venture into historical and cultural processes in Europe
- Authors:
- SOLANTAUS Tytti, PURAS Dainius
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(4), November 2010, pp.27-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the European initiative Work Package 5 (WP5), a part of the CAMHEE programme, which was designed to bring children and families with parental mental illness onto the European agenda. Parental mental health problems are a major risk for children’s adverse development. Intergenerational mental health issues often leads to social marginalisation and exclusion, which constitutes a serious social problem. WP5 participants included Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Romania. The WP5 emphasised that it is important for every country to learn what the legal, human rights, and service and life situation is for these children and families and to take preventive and promotion action. The paper suggests that, to avoid further stigmatisation, awareness campaigns and training of professionals should capitalise on resilience and support for children and parenting rather than on risks. Psychiatric services for adults should respond to the needs for care and support of the patients' children. Finally, changes in society are needed, including redirecting legislation from restrictive measures towards promotion and prevention.
Breakthrough Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- POOLE Gavin, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Social Justice
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Centre for Social Justice prepared this report following consultation with voluntary and community organisations about poverty and social problems in Northern Ireland. The report discusses economic dependency and worklessness (including barriers to labour market engagement and the unemployment system), fragility (including conflict, mental health and addiction), and the next generation (including family breakdown, family dysfunction and children in care). Each chapter includes policy recommendations for alleviating poverty and reversing social breakdown in the context of the economic, social and political climate of Northern Ireland.
Families, Parents and Carers: directors' summary 9
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This summary provides guidance based on three research reviews. The reviews set out to answer what works to improve: the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers, children’s outcomes by supporting parental and carer couple relationships and reducing conflict within families, including domestic violence, and children’s and young people’s outcomes through support for mothers, fathers and carers.
Exploring perceptions of family relationships by individuals with intellectual disability and psychiatric disorders
- Authors:
- WIDMER Eric D., KEMPF-CONSTANTIN Nadine L., CARMINATI Giuliana Galli
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 91(4), October 2010, pp.378-384.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This article explores the ways in which individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and psychiatric disorders perceive their family relationships compared with the perceptions of those relationships by family members. The study used social network methods as it focused on perceptions of a large number of family relationships of individuals with ID rather than specific family dyads. The participants were 17 individuals with mild ID and psychiatric disorders who were patients at the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland. Each participant was interviewed and completed the Family Network questionnaire. The first family member that they cited was also interviewed. A third group, a comparison nonclinical group of 17 individuals, matched for age and sex with the clinical group were also interviewed. The results showed that the clinical group, compared with comparison nonclinical individuals, perceived their family as presenting less emotional support and fewer influential relationships, but the same number of conflict relationships. For the most part, the interviews with family members confirmed these results, confirming that the patients had a very limited set of supportive relationships. However, there were some significant differences in the perceptions between patients and their family members, with family members perceiving additional relationships that the patient did not perceive. The importance of these findings for research on family relationships of individuals with ID is discussed.
Building bridges in Liverpool: exploring the use of family group conferences for black and minority ethnic children and their families
- Authors:
- O'SHAUGHNESSY Ruth, COLLINS Catherine, FATIMILEHIN Iyabo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 40(7), October 2010, pp.2034-2049.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The first Family Group Conference (FGC) services were introduced to the United Kingdom about 15 years ago. However, there is little national or international research that examines how FGCs are being used with, or viewed by, black and minority ethnic (BME) children and families. This article outlines the evaluation of a FGC project by Building Bridges, a service commissioned to address the psychological and mental health needs of BME children and their families in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The evaluation uses both quantitative and qualitative information to explore the use of the FGC model within diverse communities and contexts. The article concludes that although the model is effective and culturally appropriate, there may be challenges in terms of the range and depth of needs that can be met through the FGC intervention model. In ending, the authors make suggestions for maximising the cultural application of the model and recommendations are made for further research to explore the views of BME families.
Models and approaches in family-focused policy and practice
- Author:
- HUGHES Nathan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 9(4), October 2010, pp.545-555.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In 2007, the Social Exclusion Task Force began a cross government review of policies and practices intended to support families at risk – defined as families with multiple and complex problems such as unemployment, poor mental health, or substance misuse. This paper reviews the models and approaches to family-based policy and service provision for those at risk of social exclusion, and suggests three distinct categories for exploration. In the first category, approaches seek to strengthen the ability of family members to offer support to a primary service user within that family. In the second category, family members are recognised as having their own specific and independent needs arising out of their relationship with the primary service user. The third category includes ‘whole family approaches’ focused on shared needs and strengths that could not be dealt with through a focus on family members as individuals. In this article, the third category is considered in detail.
Young carers - all children in need of care? Decision making for children of parents with mental health problems
- Authors:
- SCHOFIELD Gillian, WALSH Judi
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Law Quarterly, 22(2), 2010, pp.223-233.
- Publisher:
- Jordan Publishing
Arguing that families where a parent has a mental health problem have long struggled to have the needs of both parents and children understood and recognised, this paper reviews research on the impact of parental mental health problems on children who support and care for parents with such problems, considering the risks that need to be taken into account when children become young carers but may not be receiving adequate care themselves and noting the importance of this research material when considering child protection strategies in relation to the significant harm threshold and when planning for care. It looks at the research context, attachment security and children of parents with mental health problems, implications for the court and the care plan, and permanency in foster care where parents have mental health problems including the role of the parent and the question of contact. The authors conclude that in the complex cases that come before the courts, in private as well as public law proceedings, it is important that the concept of child as carer is examined critically in each case and that the full range of attachment, developmental and social functioning issues are explored.