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Parental mental health and child welfare: reviews of policy and professional education
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, COX Pat
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 158p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health has been the focus of much recent policy development accompanied by increasing awareness of the impact of mental illness, not only on those who experience it, but also on family members, including children, and wider communities. This knowledge review examines existing knowledge and practice in health and social care services regarding parental mental health and child welfare. New guidelines for health and social care staff working with adults and children in a range of settings will be produced. It presents the results of searches of policy and searches of guidance on professional education, to ascertain whether, how and to what extent knowledge, structures, models, skills and values for working with parents with mental health problems and their children are addressed in policy and in professional education. The aims and objectives of these reviews were established through a process of consultation with SCIE and the main body of work was undertaken between December 2006 and September 2007 with revisions added in response to reviewers’ comments early in 2008. The reviews aim to be transparent and accessible in both description of process and presentation of findings, and fit for purpose in progressing the larger review of parental mental health and child welfare.
Out of the loop
- Author:
- STANLEY Nicky
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.4.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the separation of children's and adult's services implied in the Children Bill. Argues that children whose parents have mental health problems might not be well served by the separation. Reports on research by the University of Hull which surveyed 500 health and social care professionals.
Working on the interface: identifying professional responses to families with mental health and child-care needs
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(3), May 2003, pp.208-218.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The gaps between mental health and child-care services constitute a recognised barrier to providing effective services to families where parents have mental health problems. Recent guidance exhorts professionals to co-ordinate and collaborate more consistently in this area. This study aimed to identify barriers to inter-professional collaboration through a survey of 500 health and social care professionals. The views of 11 mothers with severe mental health problems whose children had been subject to a child protection case conference were also interrogated through 2 sets of interviews. The study found that communication problems were identified more frequently between child care workers and adult psychiatrists than between other groups. Communication between GPs and child-care workers was also more likely to be described as problematic. While there was some support amongst practitioners for child-care workers to assume a co-ordinating or lead role in such cases, this support was not overwhelming and reflected professional interests and alliances. The mothers themselves valued support from professionals whom they felt were 'there for them' and whom they could trust. There was evidence from the responses of child-care social workers that they lacked the capacity to fill this role in relation to parents and their statutory child-care responsibilities may make it particularly difficult for them to do so. Recommends that a pair of workers from the child-care and community mental health services should share the co-ordinating key worker role in such cases.
The mental health problems of mothers experiencing the child protection system: identifying needs and appropriate responses
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, PENHALE Bridget
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 8(1), January 1999, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents the findings of a small pilot study which examined the needs of mothers with severe mental health problems whose children were involved in the child protection system. The use of the diagnosis of 'personality disorder' in relation to this group of women is discussed and the finding that all these women had experience of domestic violence is considered in the context of other research findings. The article seeks to identify the differing approaches to maternal mental health problems which appear to be developing out of different groups of research studies and argues that practitioners need to be explicit in identifying their perspectives on the associated issues of maternal mental health problems and child protection.