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Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers: research summary 1
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This summary is taken from the research review which cover what works in improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers. It is based on a rapid review of the research literature involving systematic searching of literature and presentation of key data. It summarises the best available evidence that will help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families. King’s College London carried out this review on behalf of the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO). The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) conducted the data work.
Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers: online progress map
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
C4EO’s interactive data site enables local authority managers to evaluate their current position in relation to a range of key national indicators and to easily access publicly available comparative data on adults’ and children’s health and wellbeing. A range of central and local government departments shares responsibility for maximising the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers. Implementation at the local level is by a wide group of professional and non-professional staff in the community. There is no single source of purposely collected national data for identifying parents with either physical or mental health conditions.
Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers: research review 1
- Authors:
- BLEWETT James, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 111p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research review describes what works in improving the safety, health and well-being of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers. It is based on a review of the research literature involving systematic searching of literature and presentation of key data. It summarises the best available evidence that will help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families. Individual chapters discuss the available evidence in the following areas: the proportion of mothers, fathers and carers experience mental and/or physical health problems; the relationship between mothers’, fathers’ and carers’ mental and physical health and their children’s safety, health and wellbeing; and interventions and support mechanisms are most effective in increasing children’s safety, health and wellbeing through improving mothers’, fathers’ and carers’ a) physical and b) mental health. The review suggests that current service configuration – especially the split between adult and children’s services – poses a key challenge to the effective delivery of services that can meet the needs of both children and their families. Adult services can provide valuable examples of providing a personalised approach to problems in order to produce personalised outcomes, so that targeted support is not seen as stigmatising by parents, children and young people. Access to services by family members is impeded by the current system of gate-keeping by means of thresholds; i.e. an access point at which access to one or more service/s is judged necessary on the basis of risk or need.
Adverse childhood experiences and behavioral problems in middle childhood
- Authors:
- HUNT Tenah K.A., SLACK Kristen S., BERGER Lawrence M.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 67, 2017, p.391–402.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Children who have been exposed to maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are at increased risk for various negative adult health outcomes, including cancer, liver disease, substance abuse, and depression. However, the proximal associations between ACEs and behavioural outcomes during the middle childhood years have been understudied. In addition, many of the ACE studies contain methodological limitations such as reliance on retrospective reports and limited generalisability to populations of lower socioeconomic advantage. The current study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national urban birth cohort, to prospectively assess the adverse experiences and subsequent behaviour problems of over 3000 children. Eight ACE categories to which a child was exposed by age 5 were investigated: childhood abuse (emotional and physical), neglect (emotional and physical), and parental domestic violence, anxiety or depression, substance abuse, or incarceration. Results from bivariate analyses indicated that Black children and children with mothers of low education were particularly likely to have been exposed to multiple ACE categories. Regression analyses showed that exposure to ACEs is strongly associated with externalising and internalising behaviours and likelihood of ADHD diagnosis in middle childhood. Variation in these associations by racial/ethnic, gender, and maternal education subgroups are examined. This study provides evidence that children as young as 9 begin to show behavioural problems after exposure to early childhood adversities. (Edited publisher abstract)