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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.
The well-being of children of parents with a mental illness: the responsiveness of crisis mental health services in Wellington, New Zealand
- Authors:
- PFEIFFENBERGER Ari S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 21(4), 2016, pp.600-607.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Little is known about how mental health services consider the parenting role and the well-being of children when assessing parents with acute mental illness. This paper investigated how crisis mental health services addressed child well-being in the Wellington region, New Zealand. This mixed-method case study included: (i) an audit of the electronic clinical records of all adults presenting to the crisis assessment team; (ii) interviews with 22 key informants; and (iii) a documentary review. The study found data about children were not systematically collected. Less than half of (49 of the 104) the records of patients who were parents included information on their child's well-being; only six (6%) contained a specified plan for action. The focus for services was the adult patient. Key informants were unclear about their role. They identified inadequate training and institutional support, inflexible funding models and limited availability or inappropriateness of referral services as problems. They saw a need for children to become more visible, for collaborative working to improve the use of existing services and for new funding models, resources and roles. Existing national policy documents contained little guidance and no practice guidelines were in use. These were lost opportunities to improve support for the parenting role and promote child well-being. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parental mental health and child welfare work: volume 1
- Editor:
- DIGGINS Marie
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Brings together different perspectives on how parents with mental health difficulties and their children can be supported successfully. The book intends to share information, tools and resources, in ways that are accessible, useful, and usable by the broad range of professional groups involved in this complex area of practice. Key areas covered by the book are: personal experiences; policy and drivers for change; engaging with families, early intervention and prevention; impacts and influences on mental health recovery, parenting and children’s development and wellbeing; conceptual models on how we think and operate in parental mental health and child welfare work; family model; assessment and interventions; and working together. (Edited publisher abstract)
Young people supporting parents with mental health problems: experiences of assessment and support
- Authors:
- GRANT Gordon, REPPER Julie, NOLAN Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(3), May 2008, pp.271-281.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The explosion of interest in young people as carers over the last decade and a half conceals the fact that there are still no reliable estimates of the number of young people with caregiving responsibilities. This is even more problematic in circumstances where the ‘looked after’ person has a mental health problem. This study reflects on what can be done to identify, assess and support young people in these circumstances. The authors draw on selected findings from a study that has been examining the constituents of good assessment practice in work with family carers supporting relatives with mental health problems. The study embraces different carer groups but this paper concentrates on the experiences of young carers at one study site where Barnardo's and partner organisations had developed a joint initiative targeting young people who are looking after parents and relatives with mental health problems. Following a review of the literature about young people as carers, the paper describes how Barnardo's worked to support them through its young carers projects. Based on face-to-face interviews with the young people (N = 10) caring for a mother with mental health problems, the main part of the paper provides an account of how they talk about, make sense of and evaluate the support they have received through this combined initiative. The findings underscore the value of one particular young carers project, and provide clues about what lessons may be transferable to other similar projects.
Behaviour, not diagnosis: some misconceptions in the psychiatry of family and child law
- Author:
- MAHENDRA B.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Law, 38, February 2008, pp.159-171.
- Publisher:
- Jordan
This article draws attention to the kinds of behaviour that may have relevance in family and child law, such as behaviour arising from parental mental health problems. It is argued that there are many individuals with mental health problems who are fully capable of performing their obligations as a parent. The author conclude by stating that behaviour should be evaluated in its own right and assumptions should not be made on the basis of past or concurrent mental health problems suffered by the individual.
Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
Of the 175,000 young carers identified in the 2001 census, 29 per cent – or just over 50,000 – were estimated to care for a family member with mental health problems (Dearden and Becker 2004). Not all children living with a parent with mental health problems will be carers but, for those that are, they can be involved in undertaking a variety of tasks including: advocacy, help with correspondence and bills, liaising with professionals, administering medicines, emotional support and domestic tasks. This film is about 18-year-old Cait who has been caring for her Mum since she was 7 years old. The film explores the importance of involving and assessing the needs of all family members from the outset. It describes Cait’s own experience of getting the support she needed and how agencies in Liverpool are working together to improve services for parents with mental health problems and their children.
Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 90p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is about working with parents who have mental health problems and their children. It provides guidance on policy and practice and makes recommendations for key areas of professional education, workforce development and research. This guide identifies what needs to change and makes recommendations to improve service planning and delivery, and ultimately to improve outcomes for these families. The guide begins by highlighting the priority recommendations for adult mental health and children’s services. The next section describes current policy and organisational context, and the needs of parents with a mental health problem and their children. The approach which used to underpin the recommendations in the guide, ‘think child, think parent, think family’, is then described. The Family Model is then introduced as a useful conceptual tool to assist staff in thinking about different family members, their relationships with each other and the impact of external environmental factors. A description of the characteristics of a successful service is then provided which is drawn from the requirements of law and policy, and messages from research and practice. The concluding sections of the guide set out recommendations for what needs to change at every stage of the care pathway and the implications for frontline staff, organisations and managers. A list of additional resources and practice examples are also included.
Parental mental health and child welfare work. Volume 2
- Editor:
- DIGGINS Marie
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing and Media
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 117
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This publication is the second volume of Pavilion’s Learning from Success series, drawing together contributions from range of experts to explore the mental health of parents and its impact on child welfare. It includes perspectives from young people, parents, professionals and research about what works, and in what contexts. It is concerned with outcomes for parents, children and other family members as well as multi-agency staff and organisations. Section one looks at looks at integrating the family model into education and programmes. Section two look at the impacts and influences of mental health on recovery, parenting and children’s development and wellbeing. Section three describes five different assessment, intervention and service models. These include Inter-Act, which adopts a whole family approach to improving outcomes for children; and C-Change, which assesses parental capacity to change; and the Creative Families Arts Programme. Section four focuses on the effectiveness of two different specialist roles to improve family-focused practice across the service divide; the Northern Ireland Champions Initiative and the creation of the mental health safeguarding children’s manager role. The publication also includes a digest of recent research literature. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health knowledge gaps in the child protection work with parents: a narrative review of the social work literature
- Author:
- KARPETIS George
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 31(3), 2017, pp.353-368.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This is a narrative review of the latest peer-reviewed social work literature on the child protection work with parents. Aiming to identify knowledge gaps, the study researches the mental health aspects of the implicit or explicit theoretical perspectives underpinning the assessment and intervention with parents. An electronic database search extracted 38 peer-reviewed journal articles. It was found that the theoretical perspectives the publications adopted were the managerial, the critical, the humanistic, the psychodynamic and the behavioural. The study identified mental health knowledge gaps in the assessment and intervention work with parents across all theoretical perspectives and stressed the need for process and effectiveness studies on the work with parents, under explicit theoretical perspectives. The study finally highlights the need for the social work profession to increase its mental health literacy through mental health education for students and practitioners alike. (Publisher abstract)
Using the Assessment Framework to measure parental mood: an investigation of the reliability of the Adult Well-Being Scale
- Authors:
- PEPPING Christopher A., DAWE Sharon, HARNETT Paul H.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 21(1), 2016, pp.44-54.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The adoption of evidence-based practice in social work has been widely promoted in recent years and with this, a growing emphasis on the evaluation of practice using well-validated and reliable measurement processes. The Department of Health's ‘Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families’ in the UK includes quantitative measures that form part of a systematic assessment of the needs of children and their families that includes assessment of parenting capacity and parental emotional state. The measure selected to assess parental mood was originally known as the Irritability, Depression and Anxiety Scale, and has been renamed within the Assessment Framework as the Adult Well-Being Scale. This instrument is designed to assess depression, anxiety, and inward and outward irritability. However, there has been relatively little contemporary evaluation of the reliability and validity of the measure, and the extent to which it measures the four constructs it is designed to assess. This research therefore conducted extensive analyses of the reliability, validity and underlying factor structure of the Adult Well-Being Scale. The four subscales did not demonstrate sound psychometric properties. At best a total score may be used as an indicator of ‘overall psychological distress’. (Publisher abstract)