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Keeping the family in mind
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 3 booklets, DVD
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
In the UK today, one in six adults is living with a mental health problem, most commonly anxiety or depression. Many of these adults are also parents whose children are living at home, in fact mental health problems are more common in adults who have dependent children, and lone parents are three times more likely than other parents to experience mental distress. The emotional wellbeing of parents can have a significant impact on children. In some families, parental distress can lead to children taking on responsibilities that would usually belong to adult family members: they become young carers.
The silent parent: developing knowledge about the experiences of parents with mental illness
- Author:
- BOURSNELL Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(3), July 2007, pp.251-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores the lived experiences of parents with mental illness in Australia. It draws on in-depth interviews with parents (n=10) who have mental illness and provides an analysis of national mental health policies. The analysis of the parents' narratives is essential in building a picture for those involved in the issues associated with directing and developing services to support parents with mental illness. This paper also provides information for workers who are often faced with a lack of good practice programmes to address the complexities that parents with mental health issues often present. Little is known in this field about the complex needs of families who live with mental illness or recognition of the complex needs of this vulnerable group of families. In fact, there is only recently emerging evidence to indicate an awareness of children in the lives of parents with mental illness. This paper focuses upon lived experience, social process, and social policy across the troubled terrain of mental illness.
Parents in hospital: how mental health services can best promote family contact when a parent is in hospital: summary report
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Barbara, SCOTT Sara
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
A stay in hospital can represent a significant crisis, not just in terms of a parent's individual mental health but of family life overall, and may have long term repercussions beyond the period of hospitalisation itself. The findings of this report suggest that this can be re-framed as an opportunity for services to provide more holistic care.
Parents in hospital: how mental health services can best promote family contact when a parents is in hospital: final report
- Authors:
- SCOTT Sara, ROBINSON Barbara, DAY Caroline
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 53p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
A stay in hospital can represent a significant crisis, not just in terms of a parent's individual mental health but of family life overall, and may have long term repercussions beyond the period of hospitalisation itself. The findings of this report suggest that this can be re-framed as an opportunity for services to provide more holistic care.
Supporting disabled parents
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.7.07, 2007, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the research evidence behind parents with disabilities and highlights messages for practice.
Protocol for SCIE systematic review on the prevalence, incidence and detection of parental mental health problems
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has commissioned two systematic reviews in the area of parental mental health and child welfare. The first will review evidence on the prevalence of mental health problems among parents and their detection in health, social care and children’s services. The reviews are part of a larger SCIE project, the aim of which is to publish practice guidelines in how mental health services (both for adults and for adolescents and children) and local authority children and family services can plan, deliver and evaluate their service to support parents with mental health problems and their children. The guidelines project is being carried out in partnership with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, their National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, and SCIE's Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network.
Protocol for SCIE research review on access, acceptability and outcomes of services/interventions to support parents with mental health problems and their families
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, BERESFORD Bryony
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 37p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This protocol describes the processes by which the second review will be carried out. The second review concerns access to, acceptability and impact of services/interventions to support parents with mental health problems, their children and families. It will show what is known about access to and acceptability of services and interventions available to support parents, children and families and how these influence outcomes
An evaluation of the child and parent support service within the Magherafelt and Cookstown area
- Authors:
- GRIFFITHS Huw, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(2), April 2007, pp.125-135.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the interface between adult mental health issues and child development. It refers to the literature on the impact of parental mental health difficulties on children's developmental trajectories. The article then describes a pilot scheme involving a partnership between the Northern Ireland Association of Mental Health and Homefirst Community Trust in which non-professional staff supported families in which there were parental mental health difficulties and problems with the children's behaviour or development. Reference is made to an evaluation of the project conducted by an independent researcher, and the implications for practice arising from the scheme are noted and discussed.
Daughters of madness: growing up and older with a mentally ill mother
- Author:
- NATHIEL Susan
- Publisher:
- Praeger
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
This book is aimed at families where parents have mental health problems although the stories detailed in it are mostly about daughters with mothers suffering from mental health problems. The author presents 8 chapters which define a mother’s role in shaping children’s self development and chart the effects of a mother’s emotional absence, unpredictability or frightening behaviour can have on their daughters’ childhood sense of self and views of the world through each major developmental period of early and middle childhood, adolescence and young into full adulthood. Chapter 2 on early childhood pays close attention to a child’s pre-verbal development and the degree to which mental illness of a parent can affect this. Analysis of case studies from the United States and the United Kingdom is balanced, with mental illness defined as a family disease and complimented by guidance from the author for change. The final two chapters discuss the author’s afterthoughts on some of the case studies and give recommendations for future policies and practices by considering what do we need to learn? An appendix gives additional biographical detail on the women interviewed with names, of loved ones, changed for privacy. Students of psychology, medicine and law may find use for this book, according to one reviewer.