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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.
Think child, think parent, think family
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This At a Glance summary 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 current policy and organisational context. It then makes key recommendations to improve services for families where a parent has a mental health problem in the areas of: screening, assessment, care planning, and care plan reviews. Recommendations for strategic changes are then provided.
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.
Persistent child poverty in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Marina, LLOYD Katrina, MCKEE Patricia
- Publisher:
- Save the Children
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Traditionally, researchers have given a more ‘static’ snapshot of poverty by looking at it at a particular place and time. However, the introduction of the Northern Ireland Household Panel (NIHPS) survey in 2001 has allowed analysts to study the duration of child poverty. In the NI Household Panel Survey, the same people are followed up each year. This enables researchers to study how their circumstances change over the four year period for which data is available (2001-2004). Using this information, we are able to study whether child poverty is short-term or persistent - that is, being poor for at least three of the four years. 21% of children were living in persistent poverty, compared to 9% in Great Britain. Those most affected by persistent poverty were children living in families dependent mainly on benefits as their main source of income, children living with a lone parent and children living in families with a disabled or elderly adult or a disabled child. Furthermore, the analysis showed that parents of children living in poverty had poorer mental health and that mental health and well-being was worst for mothers of children living in persistent poverty.
Think child, think parent, think family: putting it into practice
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This At a glance briefing summarises the lessons learned from five local authority pilot sites and all five Northern Ireland and social care trusts who followed SCIE's guide 'Think child, think parent, think family' (2009, revised 2011) to meet the needs of parents with mental health problems and their families. The 'Think child, think parent, think family’ approach highlights the importance of whole-family working and the need for adult mental health and children's services to work together. The briefing summarises what the sites did, the strategic approaches taken; the ways in which the pilot sites involved parents and children; workforce development and training; and thinking about the family throughout the care pathway. The final sections summarise lessons about process and the factors that helped or hindered progress; lessons learned and improvements in practice; and the remaining challenges. These include improving the involvement of children, barriers to information sharing, and improving joint working.
Think child, think parent, think family: interim evaluation report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSCOE Hannah, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Since September 2009, five local authority areas in England and the five Health and Social Care Trust areas in Northern Ireland have been implementing recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family' when working with parents with mental health problems and their families. This document summarises the evaluation of the first year of the project. The evaluation aims to capture learning about how to implement the guide and to assess early indications of implementing the guidance in a local area. It focuses on the processes and practices that are effective; the barriers and enablers; and the costs associated with implementation. Data used for the evaluation included quarterly progress reports produced by the sites and notes from site meeting discussions. The report covers: the background and aims of the ‘Think child, think parent, think family’ implementation project and evaluation an overview of events in the first year; the project management and governance arrangements, the implementation plans themselves, overall progress of the implementation so far, and learning emerging from the project.
Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 90p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is about working with parents who have mental health problems and their children. It provides guidance on policy and practice and makes recommendations for key areas of professional education, workforce development and research. This guide identifies what needs to change and makes recommendations to improve service planning and delivery, and ultimately to improve outcomes for these families. The guide begins by highlighting the priority recommendations for adult mental health and children’s services. The next section describes current policy and organisational context, and the needs of parents with a mental health problem and their children. The approach which used to underpin the recommendations in the guide, ‘think child, think parent, think family’, is then described. The Family Model is then introduced as a useful conceptual tool to assist staff in thinking about different family members, their relationships with each other and the impact of external environmental factors. A description of the characteristics of a successful service is then provided which is drawn from the requirements of law and policy, and messages from research and practice. The concluding sections of the guide set out recommendations for what needs to change at every stage of the care pathway and the implications for frontline staff, organisations and managers. A list of additional resources and practice examples are also included.
A guide to understanding the effects of parental mental health on children and the family
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Understanding the Needs of Children in Northern Ireland
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Reform Implementation Team was established by the then Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety to drive forward a change agenda for child protection services in Northern Ireland, based on a Care Pathway approach. A key area of responsibility is the development, piloting and implementation of a single assessment framework, including risk assessment and mental health needs component, for Children in Need across Northern Ireland (UNOCINI). This document looks strengthening the recognition and understanding of mental health needs, and raise awareness of interrelated issues. The document looks some issues in the areas of: infant mental health, adult mental health, and addictions and substance misuse.
Outside the walls of the asylum: the history of care in the community 1750-2000
- Editors:
- BARTLETT Peter, WRIGHT David
- Publisher:
- Athlone Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 350p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays offering an exploration of the interface between mental health problems and social institutions from a social history perspective. Includes chapters on: community care and its antecedents; care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the eighteenth century; the domestic treatment of post natal depression in the nineteenth century; family, community and the lunatic in mid nineteenth century North Wales; the Scottish system of boarding out patients with mental health problems 1857-1913; domestic psychiatric regimes and the public sphere in early nineteenth century England; lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth century Ireland; assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum 1845-1914; community care and 'mental deficiency' 1913-1945; community care in England and Wales 1948-1974; mental health policy, care in the community and political conflict in Northern Ireland; and psychiatric treatment in the 1980s and 1990s.
Think child, think parent, think family: final evaluation report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSCOE Hannah, CONSTANT Hugh, EWART-BOYE Shirley
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The final evaluation report of the SCIE 'Think child, think parent, think family' project which aimed to help services to improve their responses to parents with mental health problems and their families. The report documents the progress made by the 10 sites involved, five in England and five in Northern Ireland, and makes recommendations for future activity. The report begins by providing background to the project and the methodology used. It then documents the learning from the sites, considering first what changes to practice have been made and how this has been achieved. Areas discussed are the strategic approaches to implementation, involving service users, workforce development, improving access to services, assessment, planning and reviewing care, and providing care. It then looks at lessons about the process of change and what has helped and hindered this. Recommendations for future work are also made. The project provided useful learning about how to implement the think family approach described in the SCIE (2009) guide. Over the course of the pilot practice sites were found to place and increasing emphasis on early intervention and prevention and progress on improving existing services and the way they work together.