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Parenting a child with mental health issues
- Authors:
- JACKSON Catherine, et al
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 107p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book is concerned with the particular needs of children born into families with a history of mental health disorders, who may be at greater risk of mental disorders themselves. Prospective adopters and carers often have to decide whether they can care for a child with a health need or condition they know little about. Finding reliable information in order to understand what lies behind the diagnoses and "labels" that many looked after children have acquired can be difficult. This book, part of the Parenting Matters series, is designed to address these concerns. It provides expert knowledge, coupled with facts, figures and guidance in an accessible style. The book starts with a short explanation mental disorders generally and how they may manifest in children. It goes on to outline the risk of mental disorder in a child from a family with a history of mental disorder, and the factors (genetic and environmental) that can put these children at greater risk. The author explores what is known about the physiological processes that may explain a child's behaviours and higher vulnerability. The second half of the book tells the stories of parents who have adopted children with a history of mental disorder in their family (whether known at the time of adoption or not) and how they have coped.