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All work and no play?: understanding the needs of children with caring responsibilities
- Author:
- ALDRIDGE Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 22(4), July 2008, pp.253-264.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article draws on research with children who provide care for parents with serious mental health problems and signals ongoing research that uses photographic participation methods with these groups of vulnerable children. The intention of this article is to highlight the need to move away from popular and simplistic representations of children with caring responsibilities (young carers) as victims of their parents' illnesses, as "little angels" whose caring work is condoned through rewards or as (exploited) informal domestic workers whose childhoods are inevitably compromised by the caring activity they undertake. Recommendations are made for generating deeper understanding about the lives and needs of children who are affected by parental impairment that is congruent with the thrust
Children living with parents with mental illness
- Author:
- ALDRIDGE Jo
- Publisher:
- Scottish Child Care and Protection Network
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
This research briefing looks at the research evidence on outcomes for children of living with a parent with mental illness. It also highlights key messages for health and social care professionals who work with children and families affected by parental mental illness. The briefing summarises why the issue is important, provides key implications for practice, and lists further resources.
We didn't know they cared
- Author:
- ALDRIDGE Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, July 2003, pp.31-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports on the findings of a two-year study from the Young Carers Research Group at Loughborough University which looks at the experiences and needs of children who care for parents with severe and enduring mental health problems. The study was conducted in partnership with Rethink. In-depth interviews were carried out with 40 parents who had severe and enduring mental health problems, 40
Disability rights and the denial of young carers
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 16(3), August 1996, pp.55-76.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Research, debate and policy on young carers has been welcomed by the carers movement and children's rights practitioners alike, but challenged by some disability rights authors who suggest defining the children of disabled parents as 'young carers' serves to undermine both the rights of disabled people and the rights of children. Here the authors respond to the disability rights critique
The price of caring
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, ALDRIDGE Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.1.94, 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Through talking to long-term sick and disabled people the authors found out how much the parents depended on their children for their physical and, in many respects, psychological well-being. The research also showed a complex matrix of relationships within the family and between the family and professionals. What was clear is that child carers were neglected both from within the family and from
My child, my carer: the parents' perspective
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Loughborough University. Department of Social Sciences
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 37p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Loughborough
Companion volume to 'Children who care: inside the world of young carers. Analyses parents' experiences and concerns as recipients of their children's care.
Partners in caring: a briefing for professionals about young carers
- Authors:
- DEARDEN Chris, BECKER Saul, ALDRIDGE Jo
- Publisher:
- University of Loughborough. Department of Social Sciences/Carers National Associ
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 13p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Loughborough
An overview of what young carers do, and how professionals can support them.
Children who care: inside the world of young carers
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Nottinghamshire Association of Voluntary Organisations/Loughborough University.
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 100p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Mansfield
Research report based in Nottinghamshire and looking at the experiences of 15 young carers. Looks at caring tasks and responsibilities; networks of informal and formal support; the effects of caring; and the expressed needs of young carers.
The experiences of children living with and caring for parents with mental illness
- Author:
- ALDRIDGE Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, March 2006, pp.79-88.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This research, conducted by members of the Young Carers Research Group at Loughborough University, provides a three-way perspective on the experiences and needs of children who are living with and caring for parents with severe and enduring mental illness. The views of children, parents and key workers were sought in order to provide deeper insight into the needs of families and the nature of interfamilial relationships, as well as the relationships between service users and providers. Child protection and medical research has long proposed a link between parental mental illness and the risk to children of abuse, neglect and developmental delay. The inevitability of risk associations is challenged by the research described here and outcomes for children of caring for parents with mental illness
Children caring for parents with mental illness: perspectives of young carers, parents and professionals
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 204p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Drawing on primary research data collected from 40 families, this book presents the perspectives of children (young carers), their parents and the key professionals in contact with them. The book reviews existing medical, social, child protection and young carers literatures on parental mental illness and consequences for children. It also provides a chronology and guide to relevant law and policy affecting young carers and parents with severe mental illness and makes concrete recommendations and suggestions for improving policy and professional practice.