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- Title
Parental mental illness: a review of barriers and issues for working with families and children.
- Authors
Maybery D; Reupert A
- Abstract
Many consumers of psychiatric services are parents, making these services the opportunistic point for supporting consumers' children. While evidence suggests that assisting such children improves their mental health, there is a large gulf between what psychiatric services should (or could) provide and what they do in practice. This paper summarizes the constraining barriers and issues for the psychiatric workforce according to: (1) policy and management; (2) interagency collaboration; (3) worker attitude,skill and knowledge; (4) the parent-consumer; and (5) the consumer's family, including children. Potential solutions are presented, with a particular focus on the hierarchical nature of these barriers. Recommendations are made, including organizational audits to identify the most pressing barriers that impede family sensitive practice.
- Subjects
MENTAL health personnel; MENTAL health of families; PARENTING; JOB skills; FAMILY psychotherapy; HEALTH education; MENTAL health services
- Publication
Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell), 2009, Vol 16, Issue 9, p784
- ISSN
1351-0126
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01456.x