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Childhood maltreatment among Norwegian drug abusers in treatment
- Authors:
- RAVNDAL Edle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 10(2), April 2001, pp.142-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reports on the investigation of the correlation between the European Addiction Severity Index and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire among 102 Norwegian drug abusers admitted to treatment. The aim of the study is to explore how different types and levels of childhood trauma and social and psychiatric factors, medical situation and experienced family history are interrelated. Concludes that more research, and especially prospective studies, is needed to clarify the importance of parents' substance abuse and psychiatric problems in childhood/adolescence compared with trauma in the client's childhood and the client's current psychiatric status.
Seeing the whole picture
- Author:
- DIGGINS Marie
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 109, May 2001, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reports on the Family Welfare Association's Building Bridges project, which aims to address the needs of both parents and children when parents experience mental health problems.
Inter-generational longitudinal study of social class and depression: a test of social causation and social selection models
- Authors:
- RITSHER Jennifer E.B., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178(Supplement 40), April 2001, pp.84-90.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Aims to test the extent to which social causation (low SES causing depression) and social selection (depression causing low SES) processes are in evidence in an inter-generational longitudinal study. Participants were interviewed up to four times over 17 years using the Schedule for Affection Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS). Low parental education was associated with increased risk for offspring depression, even after controlling for parental depression offspring gender and offspring age. Neither parental nor offspring depression predicted later levels of offspring occupation, education or income. Concludes that there is evidence for an effect of parental SES on offspring depression (social causation) but not for an effect of either parental or offspring depression on offspring SES (social selection).
Child homicide psychiatric disorder and dangerousness: a review and an empirical approach
- Authors:
- STROUD Julia, PRITCHARD Colin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 31(2), April 2001, pp.249-269.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Recently there has been increased professional recognition of the association between adult psychiatric disorder and childcare, although the association with child homicide continues to be overlooked. By reviewing the psychiatric child homicide studies and analysing of a decade of child murder in two English counties, the authors propose how dangerousness, psychiatric disorder and child homicide may be conceptualised. Whilst the vast majority of psychiatrically disturbed people pose no threat to their children, the psychiatrically disordered are over-represented in unselected child homicide case samples, women account for almost half the assailants and assaults are predominately an intra-familial phenomenon. Extra-familial assaults are associated with a sexual motive.
Reducing parental dissatisfaction with a child and adolescent psychology service: a process of quality improvement
- Author:
- STALLARD Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(1), February 2001, pp.63-73.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes a process of quality improvement within a community child and adolescent psychology service by focusing upon areas of dissatisfaction as identified by parents. The views of parents about the service were assessed by the Parent Satisfaction Questionnaire. Non-respondents were followed-up by a researcher and the questionnaire completed. High rates of dissatisfaction were identified and quality improvement targets implemented. Concludes that consumer satisfaction surveys can have an important role in ensuring and monitoring quality within mental health services although their traditional emphasis upon satisfaction is not helpful. Focusing upon dissatisfaction can inform service change with qualitative and quantitative data providing a way of assessing the impact of this change.
Living with under-fives: a programme for parents with a mental illness
- Authors:
- BASSETT Hazel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64(1), January 2001, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Parenthood for people with a major mental illness can be fraught with difficulties and often they receive little support. Reports on occupational therapists working in an Australian mental health service who developed a two-stream programme which aimed to consolidate the parent/child relationship and enable the parents to develop effective parenting skills. This programme has a parents' educational stream and stream with developmentally appropriate activities for the children. Observed outcomes have included the parents becoming more responsive to their children, increased treatment compliance, improved community access, and a decrease in the number of children in temporary foster care.
The 'us too' groups: a psychodynamic perspective on impact of parental mental ill-health
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Sue, BELL Mandy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 50, January 2001, pp.16-20.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Faced with increasing referrals of children of parents with an enduring mental illness, the authors of the Gloucestershire Young Carers Project set up a support group for young carers. Here, they offer a psychodynamic perspective on the experience of running the group and reflect on some lessons for the future.
When parents have a mental illness
- Author:
- ANYAEGBUNAM Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.12.01, 2001, pp.39-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains why child and adult services must collaborate if the care of children whose parents have mental health problems is to be improved.
Supporting families with a mentally ill parent: European perspectives on interagency cooperation
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 10(5), September 2001, pp.351-365.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on the findings of a cross-country comparison of cooperation between services for community mental health and child protection in 11 states. The authors consider the implications of the findings for English practice. The cross-country comparisons demonstrate the ways in which differences in structures, resources, expectations and attitudes affect professional responses and the experiences of families. A comparison of commonalities and differences highlights the problems that are shared across countries, and alternative ways of responding to them at ground level. The factors that facilitate a good outcome are analysed in relation to English practice and service structures. Highlights the implications of the findings for policy and practice.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: a complex problem
- Author:
- BLACKMORE Carol Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 74(7), July 2001, pp.259-262.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
A child protection co-ordinator gives an overview to help professionals negotiate the complexities of the syndrome.