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The family empowerment program: an interdisciplinary approach to working with multi-stressed urban families
- Authors:
- CLEEK Elizabeth N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 51(2), June 2012, pp.207-217.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Institute for Community Living, a not-for-profit organisation providing support and services to adults, children and families in New York, designed and implemented a family therapy programme which partners multi-stressed families with an interdisciplinary resource team. It is intended as a proactive response to fragmentation of care, enabling families to address a broad range of mental health and other concerns using a multidisciplinary team. The 3 core components are: family advocacy (parents who have sought mental health services for their children and families), entitlements counselling (offering expertise in finance, benefits and housing), and family therapy (therapists from the agency's Outpatient Mental Health Clinic working with families from a strength-based family therapy perspective). The programme's aim is to support families in achieving their goals through co-construction of a service plan that addresses the family's needs. This article describes the programme and how it works, and includes a case example.
Alcohol, drug and mental health problems: working with families
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, KEARNEY Patricia, LEVIN Enid, ROSEN Gwen
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a NISW research and development project looking at the interfaces within and between services for families where a parent has a persistent mental health, alcohol or drug problem. Services that have been set up to help the children and parents in such families are located in and administered by a number of different organisations. Effective collaboration, joint working across the many interfaces, and a focus on the family as a whole are essential if children and their parents are to receive appropriate help, advice and guidance.
Buttercups tackle isolation
- Authors:
- PETRIE Rosemary, HUTTON Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Outlook, 21, Winter 2003, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations
Reports on Buttercups, a service where three agencies in Carlisle, the North Cumbria NSPCC, North Lakeland Health Trust and Morton Park Family Centre (Cumbria Social Services), work together to provide a co-ordinated, multi-agency service which addresses both the needs of parents experiencing mental health problems and the effects on their children's care.
The Dawn Project: a model for responding to the needs of children with emotional and behavioural challenges and their families
- Authors:
- ANDERSON Jeffrey A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 39(1), February 2003, pp.63-74.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Systems of care represent a fundamental departure from traditional service provision by espousing genuine family-centered, culturally competent philosophies and blending the funding streams of multiple payers (e.g., education, mental health, child welfare). In Indiana, local leaders created a system of care based on these principles called the Dawn Project. Currently, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation is being implemented to evaluate the program. Preliminary findings from initial evaluation efforts suggest that for youth in the project, there is significant clinical improvement during the first year of receiving services, a reduction in the use of more restrictive settings, and a decrease in recidivism among those who successfully complete the programme.
Service development through multi-disciplinary and multi-agency partnership
- Authors:
- BURBACH Frank, DONNELLY Michael, STANBRIDGE Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(3), September 2002, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Reports on a training model used in Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust to develop a new family interventions service. The programme integrated individual skills based training with team and service development. The approach has led to the development of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency partnerships to replace existing training structures. In light of their experience the authors suggest a new approach to workforce education and training in mental health is required at a national level.
Improving opportunities and outcomes for parents with mental health needs and their children
- Authors:
- FOWLER Rebecca, ROBINSON Barbara, SCOTT Sara
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
The government’s 2004 Mental Health and Social Exclusion Action Plan identified parents with mental health problems and their children as one of the groups most likely to face barriers to getting their health and social care needs addressed. The section in this plan which addressed the needs of this group was Action 16. This report analyses the work of the Action 16 outcomes partnership 2005-2008, which aimed to find ways of improving opportunities and outcomes for parents with mental health needs and their children. It provides an overview of the Action 16 programme of work, its objectives and activities, and a contextual analysis of the extent of its success in achieving them. Information for the review was gathered from key documents, including policies and interviews with key stakeholders. The key message of the Action 16 programme was ‘think family’. This report describes how, through awareness-raising, sharing and disseminating knowledge and developing resources for positive practice, the Action 16 programme has influenced emerging policies and work-streams across children's and adult services to focus more clearly on improving outcomes for families.
Understanding the whole family: the role of families in the lives of people with severe and multiple disadvantage
- Authors:
- GOOD Frances, MARRIOTT Christina
- Publisher:
- Revolving Doors Agency
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- London
This literature review looks at the role of families in supporting and inhibiting positive outcomes for individuals with severe and multiple disadvantage. It is the third in a series of reviews on severe and multiple disadvantage funded by the Lankelly Chase Foundation. The paper uses a life-course approach, exploring the role of the family in prevention and early intervention; intervention and treatment; and the maintenance of recovery. It focuses on five areas of disadvantage: criminal behaviour, substance misuse, mental illness, homelessness and domestic violence and abuse. It refers to examples of interventions throughout. The review highlights both positive and negative contributions of families for those recovering from severe and multiple disadvantage. For some individuals families support and unconditional love was seen as critical in sustaining recovery and protecting them from further risk. For others, families were seen as contributing to criminal behaviours and addiction due to punitive and mistrustful attitudes which could leave individuals isolated. There is also additional risk of a cyclical effect of one family member facing SMD disadvantage, impacting the development of disadvantages in the life of another family member. The review highlights the need for the negative influences a family can have on an individual facing SMD to be considered in the formation of policy and practice and for services to look at the multiplicity of issues individuals face. (Edited publisher abstract)
Assessing risk: professional perspectives on work involving mental health and child care services
- Authors:
- BARBOUR Rosaline S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 16(4), November 2002, pp.323-334.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The assessment of risk is central to work with families where parental mental health needs and child care concerns coexist. This article reports on the findings of three interprofessional focus groups which examined professionals' experiences of working with such families. Specialisation and differing thresholds and codes were identified as factors which contributed to difficulties for practitioners and families and scepticism was expressed concerning the feasibility of a key worker system for this group. The issue of psychiatric diagnosis evoked ambivalent responses and was both valued as offering direction for planning interventions and seen as a means of labelling and excluding individuals from services. The focus group participants were aware that assessing risk placed families under considerable pressure, but practitioners themselves also appeared to experience an emphasis on risk as restrictive.
The Team around the child: multi-agency service coordination for children with complex needs and their families; a manual for service development
- Author:
- LIMBRICK Peter
- Publisher:
- Interconnections
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 39p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
An evaluation of the impact of voluntary sector family support workers on the quality of life of carers of schizophrenia sufferers
- Authors:
- WEINBERG Ashley, HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(5), October 2000, pp.495-503.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
An evaluation was conducted of voluntary sector family support workers (FSWs) working with families of schizophrenia sufferers. FSWs completed a diary schedule and interviews were conducted with 15 co-professionals from the FSWs' multi-disciplinary teams and 62 carers from FSWs' caseloads. Carers' problems were assessed using the burden component of the Social and Behavioural Assessment Schedule and the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile. Carers were asked about the type of support received and their satisfaction. The findings revealed the considerable pressures of caring and highlighted the value perceived by both carers and coprofessionals of the FSW as a counselling, listening, information and advocacy resource. The diary study revealed that FSWs spend 40% of their time providing emotional and/or practical support. The impact of this was suggested by the superior ratings of quality of life and lower burden scores among carers with whom the FSW had longer-term involvement.