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Peer models in mental health for caregivers and families
- Authors:
- ACRI Mary C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 53(2), 2017, pp.242-249.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Peer-delivered mental health models may hold important benefits for family members, yet their prevalence, components, and outcomes are unknown. The authors conducted a review of peer-delivered services for families of children and adults with mental health problems. Randomised studies of interventions published between 1990 and 2014 were included if the intervention contained a component for family members and examined familial outcomes. Of 77 studies that were assessed for their eligibility, six met criteria. Familial components included coping and parenting skills, knowledge about mental health, and emotional support. Outcomes were uneven, although significant improvements in family functioning, knowledge about mental illness, parental concerns about their child, and parenting skills were associated with the intervention. Peer-delivered services for family members may have important benefits to family members and individuals with mental health problems; however, the research base remains thin. A research agenda to develop and examine these models is discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
A guide to understanding the effects of parental mental health on children and the family
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Understanding the Needs of Children in Northern Ireland
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Reform Implementation Team was established by the then Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety to drive forward a change agenda for child protection services in Northern Ireland, based on a Care Pathway approach. A key area of responsibility is the development, piloting and implementation of a single assessment framework, including risk assessment and mental health needs component, for Children in Need across Northern Ireland (UNOCINI). This document looks strengthening the recognition and understanding of mental health needs, and raise awareness of interrelated issues. The document looks some issues in the areas of: infant mental health, adult mental health, and addictions and substance misuse.
Supporting parental mental health
- Author:
- HAWKER Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 62, Summer 2008, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
The author, from Dorset Primary Care Trust, discusses the development a holistic service to support parental mental health and safeguard children, through the development of a joint protocol between children and mental health social services departments.
Mental illness in the family: issues and trends
- Editors:
- ABOSH Beverley, COLLINS April
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 171p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Contains chapters on: programme planning; families and mental illness; a model of familial relationships in families with a member with mental health problems; helping families cope with mental health problems and the criminal justice system; the loss of a child to mental illness; the forgotten sibling; the impact of parental affective disorders on families; parents with mental health problems; the effects on a 6 year old child of a parent with mental health problems; and Dyadic Circularity in the mother-infant relationship.
Parental mental health and families: interventions
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
Within the context of families who have a parent with mental health problems, this e-learning module explores how to identify the outcomes parents and children want for themselves and how these can be made central to planned supports and interventions. It shows how to use the 'think child, think parent, think family' approach and the Family Model to help to identify interventions that address the needs of the whole family and explores screening, active signposting and early intervention, and their importance as points of intervention during the care pathway. Individual sections cover: the outcomes families what; screening and active signposting; and early intervention and social inclusion.
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: learning from inter-country comparisons
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen, KATZ Ilan, MESIE Jeffrey, TROWELL Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 262p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Children with mentally ill parents have complex needs, and a wide range of mental health and social services may be involved. This can lead to problems of liaison and co-operation between different agencies and different disciplines. The study looks at different approaches to supporting families in ten European countries and one state in Australia. Common problems and effective responses are identified and used to build a European model of good practice, which takes into account the nature of the difficulties facing families and the strengths and weaknesses of national systems. The model is used as a basis for analysing the particular problems of the English system.
Supporting families with a mentally ill parent: European perspectives on interagency cooperation
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 10(5), September 2001, pp.351-365.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on the findings of a cross-country comparison of cooperation between services for community mental health and child protection in 11 states. The authors consider the implications of the findings for English practice. The cross-country comparisons demonstrate the ways in which differences in structures, resources, expectations and attitudes affect professional responses and the experiences of families. A comparison of commonalities and differences highlights the problems that are shared across countries, and alternative ways of responding to them at ground level. The factors that facilitate a good outcome are analysed in relation to English practice and service structures. Highlights the implications of the findings for policy and practice.
Crossing bridges over troubled waters?: working with children of parents experiencing mental distress
- Author:
- TANNER Denise
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 19(3), June 2000, pp.287-297.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article is a critical review of Crossing Bridges, a Department of Health training pack for those working with 'mentally ill' parents and their children. The author argues, on the basis of both personal and professional experience, that although the pack pays lip-service to the significance of structural factors, the training resources are primarily rooted in an individual and family-focused pathology model of mental illness. Three arguments are put forward for the necessity of a wider framework: the significance of shame and stigma to those experiencing mental distress and their families; the predominance of understandings of mental illness that translate social phenomena into individualised problems, notably genetic explanations and attributions of risk and dangerousness; and the contribution of motherhood to the experiencing of mental distress in women. Initiatives within the mental health survivor movement are highlighted as examples promoting positive images of mental distress, and the implications of the issues raised for social work education are considered. The article concludes that efforts to help the children of 'mentally ill' parents, not to mention the parents themselves, must incorporate wider strategies to promote openness, respect, acceptance and ultimately, social inclusion, of those who experience mental distress.