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Parenting well when you're depressed: a complete resource for maintaining a healthy family
- Authors:
- NICHOLSON Joanne, et al
- Publisher:
- New Harbinger
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 234p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oakland
According to the 1999 U.S. Surgeon Generals' Report on Mental Health almost one quarter of women and fifteen percent of men suffer from some kind of mood disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder. The majority of these men and women are also parents and there is a significant body of research that says children can be affected by their parents' depression. The most noticeable effect of parental depression is a lack of response by parents to their children, coupled with general feelings of sadness and irritability. A group of practitioners and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, representing several disciplines including psychology, occupational therapy, psychiatric rehabilitation, and counselling have produced a self-help resource guide aimed at these parents. The resource guide opens with a self-assessment questionnaire that enables the reader to identify their strengths and which areas need working on. The reader can then either read the book from cover to cover or go straight to which chapters are most relevant to their needs. Areas covered by the resource guide include: mood management; balancing work and parenting; managing household finances; family safety; communicating with children about depression; play and recreation; self-advocacy; the legal system, and; contact with children when they with live with others.
Consideration of cultural factors in working with Chinese American families with a mentally ill patient
- Author:
- KUNG Winnie W.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 82(1), January 2001, pp.97-107.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This American article discusses cultural beliefs of Chinese American families in relation to their experience of a mentally ill relative. Somatic factors and psychosocial stresses as causes of mental disorders are found compatible to the belief systems of these families. The stress-vulnerability dialysis is recommended as the explanatory model to be adopted by clinicians when they communicate the causes of mental illness to these families. Ways to harness support from extended families and community resources are also suggested. Also examined is a viable working alliance between these families and clinicians in terms of a therapeutic bond, consensual treatment goals, and relevant tasks. Finally, elements of a family intervention model compatible with cultural beliefs of these families are proposed.