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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.
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.
Appendices to technical report for SCIE research review on the prevalence and incidence of parental mental health problems and the detection, screening and reporting of parental mental health problems
- Authors:
- PARKER Gillian, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 188p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This research aimed to review and present evidence that could inform the practice guidelines, to identify gaps in knowledge, and to evaluate the strength of the existing evidence, both in general and specifically in relation to marginalised families and those from black and minority ethnic communities. Two separate questions were addressed by the review reported here and reviewed separately: what is known about the incidence, prevalence, and types of parental mental health problems in the UK?; and what systems, tools and opportunities exist in children's services, adults' services and family services for detecting parental mental health problems, in both the UK and elsewhere? How these are used, by whom and in which contexts? This appendix to the report contains details of the databases used, the search criteria, and literature used for the review.
Signposts: see me, hear me, talk to me: talk to my family as well: working together to improve outcomes for young carers in families affected by enduring parental mental illness or substance misuse
- Authors:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services; Association of Directors of Children's Services
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This signposting paper brings together some resource material with the aim of stimulating local conversations to improve support for young carers and their families. The focus of this paper is on young carers who give care and support in families affected by enduring parental mental illness or substance misuse. The paper starts by summarising some key messages around 4 themes: identification of young carers; engaging with young carers; successful frontline services; and building strategic leadership and partnership. The next part of the paper summarises key themes arising from discussions at the workshop ‘Listening, Learning and Leading’ held by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in May 2011. The paper concludes with the section ‘Growing Local Conversations’ which offers discussion points for further local exploration. These discussion points are listed under the themes: tackling challenges to self-identification by young carers; engaging young carers and meeting family support needs; pursuing successful front line partnerships for whole family approaches; and building strategic leadership and partnership for sustainable outcomes. These suggested local conversations need to embrace young carers and their families.
Signposts: working together to improve outcomes for young carers in families affected by enduring parental mental illness or substance misuse
- Authors:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services; Association of Directors of Children's Services
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The focus of this paper is on young carers who give care and support in families affected by enduring parental mental illness or parental substance misuse. The aim of the paper is to bring together some resource materials to support Directors of Adult and Children’s Services in stimulating local conversations and offer a basis for improving support for young carers and their families. The paper summarise some key messages around 4 themes: challenges to self-identification by young carers; engaging young carers and meeting expectations; successful front line partnerships for whole family approaches; and building strategic leadership and partnership for sustainable outcomes. The next part of the paper ‘Listening, Learning and Leading’ summarises a workshop organised by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in May 2011 which drew on the experience of participants involved in working with young carers. The paper concludes with ‘Growing Local Conversations’ which offers discussion points for further local exploration.
It's a family affair
- Author:
- HUNT Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.8.09, 2009, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Children of parents with mental health problems are often taken into care because their needs as a family go unnoticed. The author looks recent guidance from the Social Care Institute for Excellence which recommends more integrated working, so that any assessment of adults with mental health problems takes into account the needs of their children. The current Family Support approach in Wales and its plans to test an Integrated Family Support Services model from April 2010 is also discussed.
FWA Newpin - working with parents with mental health problems and their young children
- Authors:
- LEDERER Jacqui, McHUGH Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(4), December 2006, pp.23-27.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The authors present an overview of the work of FWA Newpin, which provides centre-based structured support for parents and their children under five where there is a range of identified mental health and parent-child relationship difficulties. The article looks at the services aims, its provisions and its key concepts.
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.