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The secondary family: the result of strong community partnering
- Author:
- CANT Irene R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 12(3), October 2007, pp.30-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Support for individualism can leave marginalised people feeling even more isolated and hopeless. Families often help but can soon become emotionally depleted. The 'secondary family', created when community agencies partner with one another, can offer hope for stabilisation, if not recovery, for individuals living with mental illness. This article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate illness. The article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate psychiatric crisis. Shared goals bring crisis staff and police together to provide compassion, support and follow-up.
The mental health needs of low-income pregnant teens: a nursing-social work partnership in care
- Authors:
- PAYNE Nancy A., ANASTAS Jeane W.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 25(5), 2015, pp.595-606.
- Publisher:
- Sage
While the rates of teen childbearing have declined in the United States, adolescents who become pregnant and decide to rear their babies are often from low-income, highly stressed families and communities. This article describes the psychosocial problems of pregnant urban teens and how exposure to interpersonal trauma and current mental health problems may affect their prenatal health behaviour. It will discuss nurse home visiting as a preventive intervention with proven effectiveness in enhancing maternal prenatal health and behaviour and the health and development of children born to mothers at risk, and how a nurse–family collaboration with social workers can facilitate this mission. By providing collaborative care that addresses psychosocial, health, and mental health concerns, interventions like home visiting can reach their full potential. (Edited publisher abstract)
Developing an approach to working with hoarding: space for social work
- Authors:
- BROWN Fiona, PAIN Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 26(4), 2014, pp.211-224.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper focuses on the work taking place with hoarding in the Adult Community Social Work team of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF). Collaboration with other agencies, a commitment to supporting people who hoard and some intensive work with service users have been central to the work in LBHF so far. This paper discusses the key role that social workers have to play in supporting people who hoard, with a focus on the importance of relationship-building with service users. It argues that social workers are well placed to support people affected by this condition. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health consumer and carers participation in professional education: 'Getting there together' for children of parents with mental illness and their families
- Authors:
- COWLING Vicki, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 59(4), December 2006, pp.406-421.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
‘Getting There Together’ is a professional education seminar developed as a collaborative project by professionals, mental health consumers and carers aimed at service providers who work with children of parents with mental illness and their families. The need for such professional education concerning this group is well recognised and the project reported herein was initiated by a reference group of professionals, consumers and carers focusing on children of parents with mental illness in the Eastern region of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). The project began and continued as a collaborative effort during development and implementation, which ensured the experience, point of view and voice of consumers and carers was central to the material prepared, and at the time of seminar presentations. Seminar participants were from the family welfare, child care and supported housing sectors. Seminar participants found the first person accounts of consumers and carers the most helpful aspects of the seminars because they gave new insights into the experiences of carers and of mental health consumers as parents, as well as an understanding of ‘… the whole family, and how the child fits into the picture’.