The Family Model: Managing the Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children - Couverture souple

Falkov, Adrian

 
9781908066619: The Family Model: Managing the Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children

Synopsis

The Family Model offers a conceptual framework to help staff consider the parent, the child and the family as a whole when assessing needs and planning care packages. Its aim is to aid understanding of the complex interplay between mental ill health in parents, the development and mental health of their children, and the relationships within family units affected by mental illness. Originally developed as part of the Department of Health's 'Crossing Bridges' training programme, the model has proved extremely durable and has been extensively refined in the light of developments in the field. Additional principles have been added - including a service dimension to ensure that service provision is explicitly incorporated into thinking and practice, and a culture and community component to ensure that broader factors influencing individuals and impacting family life are also addressed.

The Family Model explores how the mental health and wellbeing of the children and adults in a family where a parent is mentally ill are closely linked in at least three ways. Firstly, a parent's mental health problems can adversely affect the development, and in some cases the safety, of their children. Secondly, growing up with a mentally ill parent can have a negative impact on a person's adjustment in adulthood, including their own transition to parenthood. And thirdly children, particularly those with emotional, behavioural or chronic physical difficulties, can precipitate or exacerbate mental ill health in their parents and carers. The book also identifies that there are risks, stressors and vulnerability factors increasing the likelihood of a poor outcome, as well as strengths, resources and protective factors that enable families to overcome adversity.

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À propos de l?auteur

ADRIAN FALKOV is a senior staff specialist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and Director of Redbank House, a tertiary child, adolescent and family mental health service. After undergraduate training in South Africa, he trained and worked in London before moving to Sydney. He is a full-time clinician with interests in service development (especially the links between adult and children's services), the interface between policy and practice and the impact of parental mental illness on children. He is a member of the National COPMI (Children of Parents with Mental Illness) Reference Group in Australia, and chairs the Western Sydney COPMI Implementation Committee.

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ISBN 10 :  1908993189 ISBN 13 :  9781908993182
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