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Parental mental health/illness and children's well-being: implications for the educational services
- Author:
- BIBOU-NAKOU I.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 5(1), February 2003, pp.6-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article is part of a pilot European project, funded by the European Union (Daphne Project 2000), dealing with parental mental illness and the children's welfare and needs. The research aimed to obtain the views of teachers working in primary education in Greece on the identification of children who live with a mentally ill parent and collaborating with specialist services to support them in school and deal effectively with their needs. A combination of focus group discussions and individual responses to a case vignette were used. The results fund that although teachers were able to identify risks and protective factors in the cases of early parental mental illness, there was a lack of early identification mechanisms in schools and an absence of a shared understanding of relevant issue across services and agencies. The results are discussed in relation to school-based prevention initiatives that empower teachers to feel they can contribute to change in their school as well as in their own classroom practice.