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Time to father
- Authors:
- BOLZAN Natalie, GALE Fran, DUDLEY Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 39(1/2), 2004, pp.67-87.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper reports the qualitative findings from 40 couples involved in a study exploring men's post-natal mental health. Interviews were conducted with individuals soon after the birth of their first child. Findings suggest that new fathers want to be more involved in the direct care and nurturing of their children than their fathers were with them. Discourses which construct fathers and inform social structures have not kept pace with men's changed attitudes and role expectations limiting the options available to men as fathers. In particular men's employment circumstances figure in their experience of adjusting to life as a father. Those fathers having least flexibility and autonomy in their work report experiencing, since the birth of their child, more unhappiness, anxiety, and generally higher levels of stress. These findings suggest increasing workplace flexibility and provisions such as parental leave are important for men's post-natal mental health. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Support for and from aging mothers whose adult daughters are seriously mentally ill
- Authors:
- DUNKLE Ruth E., INGERSOLL-DAYTON Berit, CHADIHA Letha A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 58(6), 2015, pp.90-612.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses, from the grandmother’s perspective, the ways in which support is exchanged in families coping with serious mental illness. A strengths perspective was utilised to identify ways in which family members help each other. Employing a qualitative approach, this study focuses on interviews obtained from a sample of 22 ageing mothers, aged 52–90, who are in contact with their daughters who have a mental illness. Grandmothers provided several kinds of support to their mentally ill adult daughters and to their grandchildren, who also supported the ageing mother in numerous ways. As social workers seek to assist individuals with mental illness, it is important to assess the existing strengths of their intergenerational family context. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parenting assessment in a psychiatric other and baby unit
- Authors:
- SENEVRANTE Gertrude, CONROY Sue, MARKS Maureen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 33(4), June 2003, pp.535-555.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Courts and social services often seek the advice of mental health professionals in deciding whether a mentally ill mother should remain the primary carer of her infant. This paper describes the referral pathways, outcomes at discharge and subsequently, of a sample of mothers referred for parenting assessments to a psychiatric Mother and Baby Unit. A further aim was to examine factors predicting outcome. A casenote study of sixty-one consecutive referrals for in-patient parenting assessment over a six-year period is described. Social Services were contacted to establish developments at least nine months after discharge. Fewer than half of the mothers were discharged together with their babies at the end of the assessment period, and at follow-up, less than a third were still caring for their children. Diagnosis of the mother's illness was the main factor determining whether she continued to care for her child both at discharge and at follow-up; mothers with depression were more likely to remain primary carers. Variations in the timing and process of referrals related to a lack of antenatal planning were associated with increased rates of separation of mother and infant before the assessment. The findings illustrate the need for more integrated co-ordination between professionals in mental health and children's services to ensure early planning for mothers and infants at risk.
Where do we go from here?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.99, 1999, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
After intensive help a young mother's parenting skills fail to improve. Talks to the social worker facing the dilemma and provides an expert's view of the case.